Quotes By Deepak Chopra

There is just no getting around that turning bad things into good things is up to you.

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

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

If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.

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

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.

When resources become skimpy, human beings don't suddenly cooperate to conserve what's left. They fight to the last scrap for possession of a diminishing resource.

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

We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public life.

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

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

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.