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Deepak Chopra Quotes: 32

  • For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it's a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself.

  • 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.

  • Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

  • If you want to do really important things in life and big things in life, you can't do anything by yourself. And your best teams are your friends and your siblings.

  • New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global sharing, healing the environment, sustainable economies, self-determination, social justice, economic empowerment of the poor, love, compassion in action, going beyond religious fundamentalism, going beyond nationalism-extreme nationalism, culture.

  • You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.

  • When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.

  • When you make a choice, you change the future.

  • In a person's career, well, if you're process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you're more likely to be success. I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.

  • There are many aspects to success; material wealth is only one component. ...But success also includes good health, energy and enthusiasm for life, fulfilling relationships, creative freedom, emotional and psychological stability, a sense of well-being, and peace of mind.

  • Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.

  • What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul.

    Life After Death: The Burden of Proof
  • I was very afraid at the beginning, until Master told me that pain isn't the truth; it's what you have to get through in order to find the truth.

    The Return of Merlin
  • The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.

    The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore
  • The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

  • Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.

  • Each of us is a unique strand in the intricate web of life and here to make a contribution.

  • Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dance, even when we can't name the tune.

  • The third component of the Law of Dharma is service to humanity--to serve your fellow human beings and to ask yourself the questions,"How can I help? How can I help all those that I come into contact with?"When you combine the ability to express your unique talent with service to humanity, then you make full use of the Law of Dharma.

  • Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

  • If you contemplate the Golden Rule, it turns out to be an injunction to live by grace rather than by what you think other people deserve.

    The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore
  • To only responsible choice I can make is to be love and happiness."Vincellent"Love the world as you love yourself".Lao Tze"The next step in mans evolution will be the survival of the wisest.

  • The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode.

  • Be content not with your lot in life but with being here in the flow of life. The glories of creation are in your very cells; you are made of the same mindstuff as the angels, the stars, and god himself.

    The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life
  • Once war becomes a clash of absolutes, there is no breathing room for mercy. Absolute truth is blind truth.

    The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore
  • If you could really see that tree over there,"Merlin said, "you would be so astounded that you'd fall over." "Really? But why?"asked Arthur. "It's just a tree." "No,"Merlin said, "It's just a tree in your mind. To another mind it is an expression of infinite spirit and beauty. In God's mind it is a dear child, sweeter than anything you can imagine.

    The Way of the Wizard: Twenty Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want
  • If the fate of the universe was decided in a single moment at the instant of the Big Bang , that was the most creative moment of all.

  • Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent realm that create & govern the Universe.

  • Time is just quantified eternity.

    The Way of the Wizard: Twenty Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want
  • Your mind is the knife that cuts the continuum of space and time into neat slices of linear experience.

    The Way of the Wizard: Twenty Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want
  • The boundaries we erect to divide heaven from earth, mind from matter, real from unreal are mere conveniences. Having made the boundaries, we can unmake them just as easily.

    The Way of the Wizard: Twenty Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want
  • Molecules dissolve and pass away, but consciousness survives the death of the matter on which it rides.

    The Way of the Wizard: Twenty Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want