Quotes By Deepak Chopra

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

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.

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.

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.

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

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

The fear of death comes from limited awareness.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Passivity is the same as defending injustice.