Quotes By Deepak Chopra

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

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.

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.

Victims always feel alone and helpless.

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.

Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered.

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.

Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

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.

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.