Quotes By Deepak Chopra

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.

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

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?

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.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

My father was a doctor, an army cardiologist.

Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things to aim for.

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.

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.

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

It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.

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.

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

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