Deepak Chopra Quotes
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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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All of us are living with dogmas that we accept as truths. When one of these is overturned, there's an initial gasp, soon followed by a rush of exhilaration.
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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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Consciousness conceives, governs, constructs, and becomes the activity of the body.
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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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Victims always feel alone and helpless.
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What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.
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Consciousness, rather than being an epiphenomenon of matter, is actually the source of matter. It differentiates into space time, energy, information, and matter. Even though this view is an ancient view, an ancient world view, it is now finding some resonance amongst a few scientists.
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The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.
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I was always interested in going deeply into the life of the Prophet.
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The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.
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Before a brain can register a thought, a mind must think it... every step of the way is mind over matter... We override our brains all the time.
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Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.
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We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.
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Being more aware creates responsibility. What does responsibility mean? It means the ability to respond. The more conscious you are in your ability to respond, the more creative you'll be.
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We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster.
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But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.
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The highest levels of performance come to people who are centered, intuitive, creative, and reflective - people who know to see a problem as an opportunity.
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From a scientist's perspective, to understand everything that you need to know about human beings, you only have to tinker with all the mechanical parts of genes and the brain until there are no more secrets left.
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Well-being changes as we move through life, which is why a child's version of it cannot be the same as an old person's.
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It’s time to rescue 'intelligent design' from the politics of religion. There are too many riddles not yet answered by either biology or the Bible, and by asking them honestly, without foregone conclusions, science could take a huge leap forward.
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So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that's just silly.