Quotes by Deepak Chopra

About Deepak Chopra:

Deepak Chopra is an Indian American author and public speaker. He is an alternative medicine advocate and a promoter of popular forms of spirituality. He has been described by the New York Times as a "controversial New-Age guru" though Chopra says guru is "a title I’ve rejected for thirty years". Through his books and videos, he has become one of the best-known and wealthiest figures in the holistic-health movement.
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Don't you realize," Merlin said to his pupil, "that the history of the universe has brought us here to this second?

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There is a wellspring of life within you where you can go for cleansing and transformation.

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The secrets of alchemy exist to transform mortals from a state of suffering and ignorance to a state of enlightenment and bliss.

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

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If you want to do really important things in life and big things in life, you can't do anything by yourself. And your best teams are your friends and your siblings.

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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.

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The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor's badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experienc...

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Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that's karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccin...

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The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.

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Karma, memory, and desire are just the software of the soul. It's conditioning that the soul undergoes in order to create experience. And it's a cycle. In most people, the cycle is a conditioned response. They do the same things over and over again.

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Perceptual reality is different for different species. In certain species it is a mode of observation, so what we call scientific fact is actually not ultimate truth, it is perceptual experience, and it's a mode of observation.

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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, creativ...

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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.

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The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

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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.

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Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

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What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.

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Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which...

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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.

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The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.

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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?

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Author Bio

  • NameDeepak Chopra
  • DescriptionIndian-American physician, public speaker and writer
  • BornOctober 22, 1947
  • CountryIndia
  • ProfessionMotivational Speaker; Writer; Physician; Internist
  • AwardsCanada India Foundation ("CIF") Chanchlani Global Indian Award