Deepak Chopra
Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.Collection: Life
Forgiveness belongs to those who know how to love in the first place.Collection: Firsts
A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history.Collection: Events
When you become defensive, blame others, and do not accept and surrender to the moment, your life meets resistance. Any time you encounter resistance, recognize that if you force the situation, the resistance will only increase. You don't want to stand rigid like a tall oak that cracks and collapses in the storm. Instead, you want to be flexible, like a reed that bends with the storm and survives.Collection: Experience
Practicing the Law of Giving is actually very simple; if you want joy, give joy to others; if you want love, learn to give love; if you want attention and appreciation, learn to give attention and appreciation; if you want material affluence, help others to become materially affluent. In fact, the easiest way to get what you want is to help others get what they want.Collection: Appreciation
Whatever you are struggling with, is a reminder for you to find your true purpose in this lifetime.Collection: Struggle
If you change your relationship with time, you will change your life. The most important time of your life is right now.Collection: Important
What we don't recognize is that holding onto resentment is like holding onto your breath. You'll soon start to suffocate.Collection: Forgiveness
Inspiration is that state in which mind and heart are connected.Collection: Inspiration
Happiness is the ultimate goal. It is the goal of all other goals.Collection: Goal
Good luck is opportunity meeting preparedness.Collection: Spiritual
Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.Collection: Math
The present moment dies every moment to become the past , is reborn every moment into the future. All experience is now. Now never ends.Collection: Spiritual
Time is just quantified eternity.Collection: Spiritual
Joy is a return to the deep harmony of body, mind, and spirit that was yours at birth and that can be yours again. That openness to love, that capacity for wholeness with the world around you, is still within you.Collection: Love
Bring into your mind anyone against whom you have a grievance and let it go. Send that person your forgiveness.Collection: Inspirational
More people live off cancer than die from it.Collection: Cancer
The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness. It is the goal of every other goal. Ben Henretig has embarked on an ambitious project to document a country and culture that has embraced Happiness as a part of its national policyCollection: Country
Your entire universe is in your mind and nowhere else. To expand the universe, expand your mind.Collection: Mind
To have a breakthrough, you must consciously connect with the invisible forces that are everywhere around you, urging you to go beyond your old conditioning.Collection: Invisible
Take advantage of each small success. In this way you close the gap between what you want from life and what it is giving you.Collection: Giving
Love is who you are. Your true self is pure love, infinite awareness, and unbounded joy...As you realize this, you will feel a small light in your heart. At first it will be the size of a spark, then a candle flame, then a raging bonfire.Collection: Heart
Your biological age is a critical component in the entire aging process, and again, can be very different from your chronological age.Collection: Age
We're not in the physical world. The physical world is in us. We create the physical world when we perceive it, when we observe it. And also we create this experience in our imagination. And when I say "we," I don't mean the physical body or the brain, but a deeper domain of consciousness which conceives, governs, constructs and actually becomes everything that we call physical reality.Collection: Mean
The "Bhagavad Gita" is actually a very good text for yoga - the yoga of love, the yoga of action or karma, the yoga of understanding of intellect, and the yoga of reflection and meditation. I think it's a very important map for understanding the nature of consciousness.Collection: Karma
The word yoga is the same as the English word "yoke". So in the New Testament when Jesus Christ says, "My yoke is easy and my burden is light," my interpretation is that he's referring to yoga. It means "union" - Union of the body, mind and the spirit as one continuum of consciousness.Collection: Jesus
I think the Bhagavad Gita is about both the forces of light and the forces of darkness that exist within our own self, within our own soul; that our deepest nature is one of ambiguity. We have evolutionary forces there - forces of creativity, and love, and compassion, and understanding. But we also have darkness inside us - the diabolical forces of separation, fear and delusion. And in most of our lives, there is a battle going on within ourselves.Collection: Creativity
The fastest growing segment of the population in the world right now is over the age of 90, and in some cases over the age of 100 in some countries. So people are living longer. And even though much of it is attributed to modern medicine, it's not. It's lifestyle. It's nutrition. It's the quality of exercise, the ability to manage stress.Collection: Country
Nutritional complements, wisely used, can prevent many age-related illnesses and dramatically reverse your biological age.Collection: Age
If I may take the risk of defining what a spiritual experience is, it is one in which pure awareness reveals itself to you as the maker of reality - where you suddenly discover through insight or meditation or a freak accident that your essential nature is spiritual, non-material.Collection: Spiritual
I'm finding myself very comfortable talking to medical audiences, and proving to them that underlying the material fields of the universe are force fields.Collection: Force Fields
Intentions are the triggers for transformation in the body. If you want to wiggle your toes, you do it through intention.Collection: Body
It is easier to wiggle the toes than reset the biological clock, but that is just a belief that is rooted in superstition. If we could understand that the human body is a network of information and energy, then we would see that the same principles apply everywhere in the body.Collection: Energy
You have the power to reverse your age.Collection: Age
In the past few decades, there has been a revolution in how we perceive the body. What appears to be an object, a three-dimensional anatomical structure, is actually a process, a constant flow of energy and information.Collection: Past
Consider that in this very moment, your body is changing as it reshuffles and exchanges its atoms and molecules with the rest of the universe - and you're doing it faster than you can change your clothes.Collection: Clothes
What we do wrong with teenagers is we talk down to you instead of treating you as equals. Adults complain that you're not good listeners but really, adults are not listening to what you're trying to tell us. We're always trying to give you advice. We should treat you with lots of respect and dignity and groom you to be future leaders.Collection: Teenager
The jihadists ideology cannot be wiped out with force much less killed. You know, unless we understand the root causes of this, we're going to perpetuate this violence over and over again.Collection: Violence
And I believe that if 100 million people became embodiments of peace, the world would transform, because consciousness is a collective phenomenon. And what we see as good and evil is the balance between forces.Collection: Believe
Yoga has moved from relative anonymity in the West to a well-recognized practice offered in thousands of studios, community centers, hospitals, gyms, and health clubs.Collection: Yoga
Although yoga is commonly portrayed as a popular fitness trend, it's actually the core of the Vedic science that developed in the Indus Valley more than 5,000 years ago.Collection: Yoga
The Rig Veda defines yoga as a union or "yoking" of the material and spiritual worlds, and it doesn't describe any physical postures other than the traditional cross-legged meditation pose.Collection: Spiritual
The Yoga Sutras offers a clear roadmap for the evolution of consciousness from ordinary states of awareness such as waking, dreaming, and sleeping - to higher states of consciousness.Collection: Dream
Inherent in every intention and desire are the mechanics for its fulfillment.Collection: Desire
Self-awareness includes awareness of your mental realm, which encompasses your thoughts, feelings, energy, and emotions.Collection: Self
When we're in touch with our body, we're attuned to our intuition, needs, and desires and will be in the best position to make evolutionary choices for our health and wellbeing.Collection: Choices
How can I create a better world? The more you reflect, the more your life will move into the answer.Collection: Moving
The whole material world. It doesn't actually exist. Matter is not material. It's made up of atoms that are moving at lightning speeds around huge empty spaces. So as you go beyond the appearance of molecules, you end up with a subatomic world, and if you go beyond that you end up with nothing. Nothing is the source of everything.Collection: Moving
Love without action is meaningless and action without love is irrelevant.Collection: Love