Quotes By Deepak Chopra

We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster.

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

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

No solution can ever be found by running in three different directions.

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

Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.

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.

It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.

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

A risk-free life is far from being a healthy life.

You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.

Consciousness conceives, governs, constructs, and becomes the activity of the body.

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.

The fear of death comes from limited awareness.

So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.

Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.

The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing.

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

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

Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.

Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.

When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school.

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.

Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it's realistic or not.

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.

Muhammad is more human, more self-doubting, even self-tortured at times. His story is full of adventure, intrigue, betrayal.

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

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.

Religions take donations and don't pay taxes.

And for me anyway, consciousness is three components: a personal component which for lack of a better word we can call the soul. A collective component which is more archetypal and a deeper level, and then a universal domain of consciousness.