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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Wall Street is broken for sure because it succumbed to greed and corruption and pure speculation with no values.

Deepak Chopra

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

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People think meditation is a huge undertaking. Don't think of it like that.

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What happens is consciousness operates in mysterious ways. One of those ways is that the old paradigm suddenly starts to die.

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Spiritual people should not be ashamed of being wealthy.

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We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is luxurious by any measure.

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Your immune cells are like a circulating nervous system. Your nervous system in fact is a circulating nervous system. It thinks. It's conscious.

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

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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.

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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.

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Dynamic activity and deep rest of the mind are complementary to each other.

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The world in general has meaning, deep meaning at times. This cannot be dismissed as a delusion, an artifact of chemicals.

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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.

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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.

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Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all.

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In India, you're taught that there are certain qualities that make you a divine human being.

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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.

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Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.

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When resources become skimpy, human beings don't suddenly cooperate to conserve what's left. They fight to the last scrap for possession of a diminishing resource.

Deepak Chopra

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. Muhammad is more human, more self-doubting, even self-tortured at times.

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Being more aware creates responsibility. What does responsibility mean? It means the ability to respond. The more conscious you are in your ability to respond, the more creative you'll be.

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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