Quotes By Deepak Chopra

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.

Consciousness conceives, governs, constructs, and becomes the activity of the body.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I grew up with a lot of Muslim friends, and the whole idea of revelation has been a lifelong interest of mine.