Deepak Chopra
The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.Collection: Easter
Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.Collection: Best
Consciousness, rather than being an epiphenomenon of matter, is actually the source of matter. It differentiates into space time, energy, information, and matter. Even though this view is an ancient view, an ancient world view, it is now finding some resonance amongst a few scientists.Collection: Space
There are very few good examples of effective, nurturing leadership that unlocks people's potential or even enthusiasm.Collection: Leadership
What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.Collection: History
Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.Collection: Time
The fear of death comes from limited awareness.Collection: Fear
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.Collection: Leadership
You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.Collection: Positive
To think is to practice brain chemistry.Collection: Intelligence
But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.Collection: Health
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.Collection: Brainy
Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.Collection: Success
People need to know that they have all the tools within themselves. Self-awareness, which means awareness of their body, awareness of their mental space, awareness of their relationships - not only with each other, but with life and the ecosystem.Collection: Space
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 cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there's karma all over again.Collection: Experience
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.Collection: Wisdom
I feel genius in great works of art. I have seen medical cures that science can't explain, some seemingly triggered by faith. The same is true of millions of other people.Collection: Medical
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.Collection: Experience
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 is the domain of philosophers.Collection: Sad
Self-awareness is not just relaxation and not just meditation. It must combine relaxation with activity and dynamism. Technology can aid that.Collection: Technology
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.Collection: Morning
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.Collection: Science
I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.Collection: Leadership
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.Collection: Death
The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.Collection: Health
Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.Collection: Happiness
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.Collection: Imagination
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 experience thoroughly and fully.Collection: Experience
There are receptors to these molecules in your immune system, in your gut and in your heart. So when you say, 'I have a gut feeling' or 'my heart is sad' or 'I am bursting with joy,' you're not speaking metaphorically. You're speaking literally.Collection: Sad
In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.Collection: Wisdom
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?Collection: Medical
For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it's a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself.Collection: Courage
In a person's career, well, if you're process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you're more likely to be success. I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.Collection: Success
I've always felt that technology can be used to our benefit and should be used to our benefit.Collection: Technology
Karma is only in space time and causality. Your real self resides non-locally.Collection: Space
In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
Our minds influence the key activity of the brain, which then influences everything; perception, cognition, thoughts and feelings, personal relationships; they're all a projection of you.
Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it's realistic or not.
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.
Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.
The highest levels of performance come to people who are centered, intuitive, creative, and reflective - people who know to see a problem as an opportunity.
Meditation makes the entire nervous system go into a field of coherence.
The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.
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.
The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.
Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.
It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.
No solution can ever be found by running in three different directions.
You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.
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.