Quotes By Deepak Chopra

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.

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.

You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.

Religions take donations and don't pay taxes.

We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.

Passivity is the same as defending injustice.

So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that's just silly.

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.

There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.

Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you're flexible, when you're spontaneous, when you're detached, when you're easy on yourself and easy on others.

My own training is in the field of neuroendocrinology and I really became very fascinated many years ago with the molecules of emotion, molecules that we call neuropeptides.

Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.

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

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.

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

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.

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.