Deepak Chopra
When the rhythms of our body-mind are in synch with nature's rhythms, when we are living in harmony with life, we are living in the state of grace. To live in grace is to experience that state of consciousness where things flow effortlessly and our desires are easily fulfilled. Grace is magical, synchronistic, coincidental, joyful. It's that good-luck factor. But to live in grace we have to allow nature's intelligence to flow through us without interfering.Collection: Good Luck
We have to learn to go beyond both a positive mind and a negative mind to become a silent, nonjudgmental, non-analytical, non-interpretiv e mind. In other words, the silent witness. In the process of silent witnessing, we experience inner silence. In the purity of silence, we feel connected to our source and to everything else.Collection: Silence
The most effective way to transform into higher consciousness is to pay attention in the present moment.Collection: Attention
Real happiness comes from having an unassailable connection to the deep state of unbounded awareness at our core. This state of being is our own inner joy that expresses the exuberance and wonder of being alive at this moment; it is our own self-luminous essence made conscious of itself.Collection: Real
Meditation is one of the most direct and powerful ways to awaken to who we really are and to experience happiness as a state of consciousness that already exists within us.Collection: Powerful
We may experience a realization of our true Self the first time we meditate, but most often the process of awakening is gradual.Collection: Self
The present moment is the only time that is eternal and the only time in which we can experience happiness.Collection: Moments
While the health benefits are many, yoga offers much more than just a way to exercise the body.Collection: Yoga
Nothing could be closer than the present, yet nothing slips away faster.Collection: Faster
In an instant, our mind can carry us far away into memories of the past or fantasies about the future. Or we may get caught up in a race against the clock, feeling like there's never enough time. We say things like "Time is flying," "Time is running out," or "There are never enough hours in the day."Collection: Running
The most effective way to live in the flow of the timeless is meditation.Collection: Meditation
Don't instantly throw yourself into external demands.Collection: Demand
Throughout your day, when you notice that your thoughts have drifted away, come back to where you are. You'll instantly see why you drifted away, whether because you were bored, anxious, dwelling on the past, or anticipating the future.Collection: Past
While the mind lives in the past and the future, the body lives in the now.Collection: Past
Connecting to the feelings in your body brings you back into present-moment awareness.Collection: Feelings
When you focus on just one thing at a time, without rushing or procrastinating, you cultivate a sense of timeless awareness that creates feelings of calm and well-being.Collection: Rushing
You have to understand the teen years of any leader to understand the mechanics of their leadership.Collection: Years
As a physician who was smoking a pack of cigarettes a day, getting drunk on weekends, stressed out about having 35 patients in the hospital, and not being able to help either them or myself, I had my existential crisis way before I met Maharishi. I did meet him and he was an influence, but I met many other people as well.Collection: Weekend
I used to respond to people who are dismissive of my work, but as I grow older, I think it's best to ignore your critics. For one thing, they can't stand it, and secondly, you're never going to change them.Collection: Thinking
Even if yoga only enhanced physical fitness, the time spent in practice would be fully worthwhile.Collection: Yoga
The deeper meaning and gift of yoga is the path it offers us into the timeless, spaceless world of spirit.Collection: Yoga
We somehow forget that we can choose whether to make time an enemy or an ally.Collection: Enemy
We can shift from time-bound awareness into timeless awareness . . . to the ecstasy that can only be found in the present moment.Collection: Moments
To maintain a youthful mind, write down two or three things you can do that are totally childlike, such as eating an ice cream cone, coloring a picture, or jumping rope. Find something that brings back the sense of fun you had as a child and choose one of these activities to do today.Collection: Children
The mind/body connection is like a telephone line - many telephone lines, in fact, teeming with information. Small things like drinking an orange juice with pulp or eating an apple is being received like a telephone call to your genes. Every thought, every thing you eat, every single little thing can tweak your genes activity towards healing.Collection: Drinking
Since we are an inextricable part of the field of consciousness, we are also infinitely creative, unbounded, and eternal.Collection: Creative
Meditation will work on anyone who has a functioning human nervous system. All you need is the intelligence to follow simple instructions. Even children as young as 4 and 5 have been taught to meditate successfully.Collection: Children
People think meditation is a huge undertaking.Collection: Thinking
Fear, anger, stubbornness, and distrust portray themselves as your rescuers. Actually these energies only make you more closed off. Tell yourself: Nobody ever solved a situation by panicking; no one ever solved a situation by refusing to hear new answers; no one solved a situation by shutting down.Collection: Balance
Slip into the gap, have the desire, detach from the outcome, and let the universe take care of the details.Collection: Desire
In reality there is nothing to fear in the present. Fear is projected onto the present by memory.Collection: Memories
While most people are conditioned to see the body as a biological machine, you can begin to view it as a field of energy, transformation, and intelligence that is constantly renewing itself. Begin to notice both your internal dialogue and how you speak about your body and aging.Collection: Views
Isolation and loneliness create the conditions for rapid aging. The key is to stay connected and open to new relationships throughout your life.Collection: Loneliness
According to this law [the law of Dharma], you have a unique talent and a unique way of expressing it. There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world--and for every unique talent and unique expression of that talent, there are also unique needs. When these needs are matched with the creative expression of your talent, that is the spark that creates affluence. Expressing your talents to fulfill needs creates unlimited wealth and abundance.Collection: Spiritual
Solving problems should be a joy, a welcome challenge to our creativity.Collection: Creativity
Today I want to belong. I want to feel safe and at home. I want to be aware of what it is like simply to be, without defenses or desires. I will appreciate the flow of life for what it is-my own true self. I will notice those moments of intimacy with myself, when I feel that “I am” is enough to sustain me forever. I will lie on the grass at one with nature, expanding until my being fades into the infinite.Collection: Spiritual
Meditation is the progressive quieting of our mind, until we reach the source of thought, which in wisdom traditions are the realm of our soul and spirit. In this domain of awareness there is infinite creativity, synchronicity, the power of intention, and freedom from limitations.Collection: Creativity
Quantum physics has found that there is no empty space in the human cell, but it is a teeming, electric-magnet ic field of possibility or potentialCollection: Cells
Survival of the fittest can take us only so far; competition and aggression have brought us to the brink of self-destruction. What is needed now is survival of the wisest. You can participate in this shift by expanding your own awareness.Collection: Self
Coincidences are not accidents but signals from the universe which can guide us toward our true destiny.Collection: Destiny
Sex is always about emotions. Good sex is about free emotions; bad sex is about blocked emotions.Collection: Relationship
Fear is the emotion behind hatred. Fear comes when you are threatened either physically or emotionally or psychologically.Collection: Hatred
Our thoughts are always pulling us into the future or the past, away from the present. But it is in the present moment that we find Spirit, our essential being and the force that animates all life.Collection: Past
I am beneath or above no one. When I am independent of the good or bad opinion of others, I stand strong in my own divine power.Collection: Strong
The force fields of nature are force fields of consciousness. They are force fields of knowledge.Collection: Force Fields
Ask yourself, "Is there anything in my life that is causing me to feel a sense of unease, discomfort, or pain?" You can choose a persistent issue that has bothered you for years, or it may be something that has recently come up for you. While it's fine to focus on a chronic, physical disorder, don't approach this exercise as a cure - we're focusing on patterns of perception that encourage us to hold onto suffering.Collection: Pain
If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.Collection: Spiritual
By observing your addictive behaviors, you observe your conditioning. When you observe your conditioning, you're free of it, because you are not your conditioning; you are the observer of your conditioning.Collection: Behavior
Forgiveness in the heart comes about when the walls of separation in the mind fall.Collection: Wall