Quotes By Deepak Chopra

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

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.

Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

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.

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.

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.