Deepak Chopra Quotes
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You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.
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Consciousness conceives, governs, constructs, and becomes the activity of the body.
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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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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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The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.
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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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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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Traditional Islam is a mixture of all obedience to Allah, and if that requires militancy, so be it.
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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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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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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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Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.