Quotes by Deepak Chopra

"We must go beyond the constant clamor of ego, beyond the tools of logic and reason, to the still, calm place within us: the realm of the soul."

"You have to think of your brand as a kind of myth. A myth is a compelling story that is archetypal, if you know the teachings of Carl Jung. It has to have emotional content and all the themes of a great story: mystery, magic, adventure, intrigue, conflicts, contradiction, paradox."

"To think is to practice brain chemistry."

"The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years."

"The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality."

"Karma, memory, and desire are just the software of the soul. It's conditioning that the soul undergoes in order to create experience. And it's a cycle. In most people, the cycle is a conditioned response. They do the same things over and over again."

"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."

"We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology."

"The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world."

"People need to know that they have all the tools within themselves. Self-awareness, which means awareness of their body, awareness of their mental space, awareness of their relationships - not only with each other, but with life and the ecosystem."

"I teach people that no matter what the situation is, no matter how chaotic, no matter how much drama is around you, you can heal by your presence if you just stay within your center."

"In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer."

"But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you."

"Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone."

"Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment."

"Success comes when people act together failure tends to happen alone."

"Our minds influence the key activity of the brain, which then influences everything; perception, cognition, thoughts and feelings, personal relationships; they're all a projection of you."

"In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you."

"Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that's karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there's karma all over again."

"There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence."

"Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time."

"We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here."

"Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity."

"The fear of death comes from limited awareness."

"The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking."

"Self-awareness is not just relaxation and not just meditation. It must combine relaxation with activity and dynamism. Technology can aid that."

"I've always felt that technology can be used to our benefit and should be used to our benefit."

"Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted."

"Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy."

"If you're studying for an exam you're not thinking about the results. If you're always worried about the results, you can't study a lot. So to be engaged and detached from the outcome is excellent. Excellence is behavior. I mean, isn't that what martial arts is about? And that's what meditation is about, that's what, in many ways, sports are about."

"I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?"

"You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway."

"Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born."

"Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers."

"Karma is only in space time and causality. Your real self resides non-locally."

"I, of course, meditate for two hours every morning. It's part of my schedule I wake up at 4 a.m. every day and I love it."

"I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for."

"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."

"You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable."

"In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit."

"Victims always feel alone and helpless."

"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."

"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 can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology."

"Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking."

"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."

"It is the nature of babies to be in bliss."

"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."

"Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together."