Deepak Chopra Quotes
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Religions take donations and don't pay taxes.
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You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.
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What happens is consciousness operates in mysterious ways. One of those ways is that the old paradigm suddenly starts to die.
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We can actually accelerate the process through meditation, through the ability to find stillness through loving actions, through compassion and sharing, through understanding the nature of the creative process in the universe and having a sense of connection to it. So, that's conscious evolution.
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In India, you're taught that there are certain qualities that make you a divine human being.
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Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.
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Spiritual people should not be ashamed of being wealthy.
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It takes a little bit of mindfulness and a little bit of attention to others to be a good listener, which helps cultivate emotional nurturing and engagement.
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Self-awareness is not just relaxation and not just meditation. It must combine relaxation with activity and dynamism. Technology can aid that.
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Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.
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To say that Nature displays intelligence doesn't make you a Christian fundamentalist. Einstein said as much, and a fascinating theory called the anthropic principle has been seriously considered by Stephen Hawking, among others.
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Meditation makes the entire nervous system go into a field of coherence.
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A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness.
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There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.
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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.
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The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality.
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As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. You know, the two-year-old dies before the three-year-old shows up, the three-year-old dies before the teenager shows up.
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Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future. The past is closed and limited; the future is open and free.
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Your immune cells are like a circulating nervous system. Your nervous system in fact is a circulating nervous system. It thinks. It's conscious.
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Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers.
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Traditional Islam is a mixture of all obedience to Allah, and if that requires militancy, so be it.
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The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.
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We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.
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I, of course, meditate for two hours every morning. It's part of my schedule; I wake up at 4 a.m. every day and I love it.