Deepak Chopra Quotes
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The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.
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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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I was always interested in going deeply into the life of the Prophet.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.
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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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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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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.