Quotes By Deepak Chopra

I grew up with a lot of Muslim friends, and the whole idea of revelation has been a lifelong interest of mine.

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.

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

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

I like Muhammad a lot, because he's like us more than anybody else. Jesus is just so exalted, and Buddha is just so exalted, it's almost beyond our reach.

Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all.

Victims always feel alone and helpless.

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

Traditional Islam is a mixture of all obedience to Allah, and if that requires militancy, so be it.

Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.

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.

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.

Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.

Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered.

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.

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

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.

A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness.

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.

Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.

Your immune cells are like a circulating nervous system. Your nervous system in fact is a circulating nervous system. It thinks. It's conscious.

Yes, in all my research, the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion.

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

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.

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?

We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is luxurious by any measure.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

All religions develop, become exclusive, become divisive and quarrelsome.

No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can't find the point where these molecules became conscious.

My father was a doctor, an army cardiologist.