Deepak Chopra
Love allows your beloved the freedom to be unlike you. Attachment asks for conformity to your needs and desires. Love imposes no demands. Attachment expresses an overwhelming demand - "Make me feel whole." Love expands beyond the limits of two people. Attachment tries to exclude everything but two people.Collection: Marriage
The trees are our lungs, the rivers our circulation, the air our breath, and the earth our body.Collection: Air
In the mere observation of yourself, you begin the process of healing and transformation.Collection: Healing
We live in the Age of the Higher Brain, the cerebral cortex that has grown enormously over the last few millennia, overshadowing the ancient, instinctive lower brain. The cortex is often called the new brain, yet the old brain held sway in humans for millions of years, as it does today in most living things. The old brain can't conjure up ideas or read. But it does possess the power to feel and, above all, to be. It was the old brain that caused our forebears to sense the closeness of a mysterious presence everywhere in Nature.Collection: Spiritual
When we use memories, we are creators. But when our memories use us, we become victims.Collection: Memories
Since the universe is in constant and dynamic exchange, we need to both give and receive to keep abundance, love and anything else we want circulating in our lives.Collection: Giving
In order to create success and money in your life, your intent and focus must be clear. You can then let the universe take care of the details.Collection: Order
DNA is a quantum computer that localizes a non local omnipresent consciousness or spirit into space time energy information and matter.Collection: Time
Everyone has a purpose in life... a unique gift or special talent to give to others.Collection: Unique
The most enlightened people in the world embrace their full potential of light and dark. When you're with people who recognize and own their negative qualities, you never feel judged by them. It's only when people see good and bad, right and wrong, as qualities outside themselves that judgments occur.Collection: Dark
If you can accept the flow of life and give in to it, you will be accepting what is real. Only when you accept what is real can you live with it in peace and happiness. The alternative is a struggle that will never end because it is a struggle with the unreal, with a mirage of life instead of life itself.Collection: Real
If a child is poor in math but good at tennis, most people would hire a math tutor. I would rather hire a tennis coach.Collection: Children
Passively accepting your sadness is the same as forgetting to build your own happiness. Happiness is more than a mood. It's a long-lasting state that is more accurately called well-being.Collection: Sadness
Although our package of skin and bones looks very convincing, it is a mask, an illusion, disguising our true self, which has no limitations.Collection: Spiritual
I think the time has come for us to embrace spirituality as a domain of awareness where we all experience our universal nature, where we all experience our inseparability, where we all know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of creation.Collection: Heart
In the now, time ceases to exist and we experience a presence that is all-absorbing, completely at peace, and totally satisfying.Collection: Satisfying
The everyday brain could be dubbed "the baseline brain," because it operates at the minimum functioning to keep you alive and healthy. It controls your heart rate, your blood pressure, your immune function, all of your subconscious impulses. That's not a minor role; the baseline brain is a marvel of complexity and efficiency. But too much of it is devoted to habits, old conditioning, unconscious reflexes, and lack of self-awareness.Collection: Heart
You will find inner ecstasy when you can be reckless in love.Collection: Love
The restful alertness response reverses the aging process.Collection: Alertness
Synchronicity is God sending us messages anonymously.Collection: Time
Gratitude is a divine attitude in the wisdom traditions. It takes you out from the ego self and takes you into the higher self. That higher state of consciousness initiates self repair, self regulation and healing.Collection: Gratitude
Despite what you've been conditioned to believe, sexual desire is sacred and virtuous. When you and your beloved merge physically and emotionally, you go beyond the boundaries of the ego and experience timelessness, naturalness, playfulness and defenselessness .Collection: Believe
I meditate twice a day. I meditate two hours every day. I spend at least an hour working out. So that's three hours every day of something mind/body discipline. Other than that: nothing.Collection: Two
There is a need for everyone's brain to be imprinted with more self-enhancing impulses: the impulse to peace over violence, love over fear, compassion over selfishness.Collection: Compassion
If you find yourself saying things like, "I'm hitting the age where I'll need reading glasses," "I'm too old to try yoga (or some other activity)," or other such statements, make a conscious choice to shift your perspective and what you tell yourself about your body and age.Collection: Yoga
During meditation, our breathing slows, our blood pressure and heart rate decrease, and stress hormone levels fall.Collection: Stress
Meditation calms the mind, and when the mind is in a state of restful awareness, the body relaxes too.Collection: Meditation
The most powerful benefits of meditation come from having a regular, daily practice.Collection: Powerful
The skill of letting go can be learned, and once learned you will enjoy living much more spontaneously.Collection: Letting Go
We took blood samples and we can predict if someone is doing meditation or not.Collection: Blood
There is actually a genetic signature associated with meditation.Collection: Meditation
You don't have to go the gym - just walk 10,000 steps a day and you are activating your good genes. But do practise yoga.Collection: Yoga
I do an early morning meditation from 4am to 6am, a yoga class from 6am to 7am and then set an intention to feel joyful and energetic in my body and loving and compassionate in my heart. For the rest of the day, I just go with the flow.Collection: Morning
The teenage years are years of great chaos and confusion in your lives, but also a time of seeking a deeper meaning.Collection: Teenage
Rather than looking for another religion, look for the values that are in every religion.Collection: Looks
I sing my song for a living, and I don't really worry about who listens or what they think. But it seems to make a living.Collection: Song
Transcendental meditation is one particular form of mantra meditation that allows your mind to experience progressively abstract fields of awareness. And ultimately you settle down in the space between your thoughts. The space between your thoughts is pure consciousness, and it's a field of possibilities. It's a field of creativity. It's a field of correlation. It's also a field of uncertainty. It's also a field where intention actualizes its own fulfillment. So that meditation allows you to contact this field, which is very primordial - the ground state of our existence.Collection: Creativity
The themes that run through all my work are that consciousness is the ultimate reality; and that by understanding consciousness, you understand everything about yourself, about perception, about creativity, about behavior, about relationships. By understanding consciousness, you have the ability to create anything in your world. And you have the ability to influence also the collective consciousness to not only bring about personal healing, but social transformation, and ultimately healing our planet, which happens to be extremely wounded.Collection: Running
I think where you're born brings a history with it - a cultural history, a mythical history, an ancestral history, a religious context - and certainly influences your perception of the world and how you interpret everyday reality.Collection: Religious
It shapes my reality, where I was born, in two ways. One, I was burdened by the culture I was born in. And secondly, it gave me a context with which to actually see with wise eyes as well. So culture is both a burden as well as an opportunity for us to look at the world through eyes of wisdom.Collection: Wise
I was influenced by the political environment of our country that has just gained freedom from British colonialism. And the seminal figures in that environment were Mahatma Gandhi, who had been assassinated shortly after I was born, but nevertheless dominated the collective psyche of the country. And of course there were other statesmen who were very much part of the culture we knew as well as looked upon by society as leaders, and mentors, and people that inspires us to have a vision for idealism.Collection: Country
Bhagavad Gita is very relevant to modern times when you see things like global warming, climate chaos, changing weather patterns, natural disasters like hurricane Katrina, extreme poverty, economic disparities, social injustice, war, and terrorism - these are the projection of a collective consciousness that's in disarray.Collection: War
When you say, "I have a sad heart," then you literally have a sad heart. If we looked inside your heart, we would find it affected by molecules that cause stress and damage, such as excessive amounts of adrenaline and cortisol.Collection: Stress
Take responsibility for making conscious choices.Collection: Responsibility
Work on psychological blocks like shame and guilt - they falsely color your reality.Collection: Block
Awareness isn't passive. It directly leads to action (or inaction).Collection: Action
As you take steps to expand your awareness, you will naturally find yourself harnessing your mind's infinite power to create greater health, happiness, and love in your life.Collection: Finding Yourself
Everyone who experiences a spontaneous peak experience tries to recapture the bliss, but most are disappointed. They search for fulfillment in the next job, a new relationship, more money, a coveted car, accolades, and accomplishments.Collection: Jobs
Bliss is not a feeling but a state of being. In the state of bliss, everything is loved.Collection: Love