Deepak Chopra Quotes
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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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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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To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.
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You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.
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Victims always feel alone and helpless.
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I was always interested in going deeply into the life of the Prophet.
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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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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.
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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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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.