Deepak Chopra Quotes - Page 20

• The most enlightened people in the world embrace their full potential of light and dark. When you're with people who recognize and own their negative qualities, you never feel judged by them. It's only when people see good and bad, right and wrong, as qualities outside themselves that judgments occur.

  Deepak Chopra

  Dark, Light, People

  10 Copy quote

• When we use memories, we are creators. But when our memories use us, we become victims.

  Deepak Chopra

  Memories, Use, Victim

  9 Copy quote

• Passively accepting your sadness is the same as forgetting to build your own happiness. Happiness is more than a mood. It's a long-lasting state that is more accurately called well-being.

  Deepak Chopra

  Sadness, Long, Forget

  9 Copy quote

• I think the time has come for us to embrace spirituality as a domain of awareness where we all experience our universal nature, where we all experience our inseparability, where we all know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.

  Deepak Chopra

  Heart, Thinking, Spirituality

  "Deepak Chopra: Spiritual healing during times of crisis". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. September 20, 2001.

  10 Copy quote

• Although our package of skin and bones looks very convincing, it is a mask, an illusion, disguising our true self, which has no limitations.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Self, Skins

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “Journey Into Healing: Awakening the Wisdom Within You”, p.13, Random House

  6 Copy quote

• Despite what you've been conditioned to believe, sexual desire is sacred and virtuous. When you and your beloved merge physically and emotionally, you go beyond the boundaries of the ego and experience timelessness, naturalness, playfulness and defenselessness .

  Deepak Chopra

  Believe, Ego, Desire

  11 Copy quote

• I meditate twice a day. I meditate two hours every day. I spend at least an hour working out. So that's three hours every day of something mind/body discipline. Other than that: nothing.

  Deepak Chopra

  Two, Discipline, Work Out

  Interview with Michele Denis and Linda Richards, www.januarymagazine.com. April 2001.

  10 Copy quote

• 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.

  Deepak Chopra

  Change, Death, Health

  Deepak Chopra (2007). “The Essential Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Essence of the Quantum Alternative to Growing Old”, p.16, Harmony

  64 Copy quote

• Because scientists know that all human beings do not age at the same rate, biological age is measured by how well one's physiological systems are functioning.

  Deepak Chopra

  Age, Scientist, Rate

  8 Copy quote

• For nearly a hundred years, we have known that the material world is an illusion. Everything that seems solid - a rock, a tree, your body - is actually 99.999% empty space.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Rocks

  9 Copy quote

• Addiction is the number one disease of civilization, and it's directly and indirectly related to all other diseases. Besides physical addictions to nicotine, alcohol, and other substances, there are psychological addictions, such as the addiction to work, sex, television, melodrama, and perfection.

  Deepak Chopra

  Sex, Civilization, Numbers

  9 Copy quote

• Gratitude is a divine attitude in the wisdom traditions. It takes you out from the ego self and takes you into the higher self. That higher state of consciousness initiates self repair, self regulation and healing.

  Deepak Chopra

  Gratitude, Attitude, Healing

  8 Copy quote

• Ecstasy carries you completely outside your ego boundaries. In ecstasy you know yourself as cosmic ego, unbounded in time and space.

  Deepak Chopra

  Motivational, Spiritual, Space

  14 Copy quote

• There are worlds of possibility inherent in our consciousness that can facilitate our own transformation. What future have you imagined for yourself?

  Deepak Chopra

  World, Transformation, Consciousness

  9 Copy quote

• Each of us is here to discover our true selves; that essentially we are spiritual beings who have taken manifestation in physical form; that we're not human beings that have occasional spiritual experiences, that we're spiritual beings that have occasional human experiences

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Taken, Self

  17 Copy quote

• Memory is useful because it gives us a sense of continuity. But memory is also imprisoning because it conditions us in predictable ways.

  Deepak Chopra

  Memories, Giving, Way

  6 Copy quote

• 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.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Unique, Law

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.68, Amber-Allen Publishing

  17 Copy quote

• You break free when you feel neither beneath anyone nor superior to anyone, when you shed the need to control other people, when you create space for others to be who they are and for your real self to be what it is.

  Deepak Chopra

  Real, Acceptance, Self

  Deepak Chopra (2009). “Power, Freedom, and Grace: Living from the Source of Lasting Happiness”, p.60, Amber-Allen Publishing

  7 Copy quote

• Christ wasn't a Christian and Buddha wasn't a Buddhist and Muhammad wasn't Muslim. These people were having the experience of unity consciousnesses and universal consciousness and they spoke of it in words.

  Deepak Chopra

  Christian, Buddhist, People

  4 Copy quote

• It helps if you remember that everyone is doing their best from their level of consciousness.

  Deepak Chopra

  Levels, Helping, Remember

  Twitter post from May 17, 2011

  8 Copy quote

• You are here for a reason.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Reason

  Twitter post from Oct 13, 2010

  5 Copy quote

• Love is considered the most basic emotion that human awareness can feel; therefore, it is the closest to the source of life. The burst of well-being you feel when you fall in love is due to the fact that you unconsciously open the channels of awareness that allow more Prana [Life Force] to flow.

  Deepak Chopra

  Falling In Love, Love Is, Flow

  Deepak Chopra (1997). “Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old”, Random House Large Print Publishing

  28 Copy quote

• Human nature is divided; it contains both darkness and light. You can choose to accept the darkness and lament it, or you can choose to expand the light until the darkness no longer dominates.

  Deepak Chopra

  Light, Darkness, Human Nature

  Deepak Chopra (2012). “Spiritual Solutions: Answers to Life's Greatest Challenges”, p.145, Harmony

  10 Copy quote

• Meditation is all about connecting with your soul. Part of maintaining your well-being is taking the time to disconnect from the outside to go within.

  Deepak Chopra

  Meditation, Soul, Maintaining

  6 Copy quote

• Love is an aspect of being, and when you act from being, the power you draw on is limitless because it comes from the source.

  Deepak Chopra

  Love Is, Limitless, Source

  Deepak Chopra (2011). “The Soul of Leadership: Unlocking Your Potential for Greatness”, p.117, Random House

  7 Copy quote

You May Also Like:

Louise Hay

Eckhart Tolle

Wayne Dyer

Marianne Williamson

Andrew Weil

Mallika Chopra

Debbie Ford

Leonard Mlodinow