Deepak Chopra
Love is a way of living, and not something that you give.Collection: Love Is
In the tangled hierarchy sinner and saint, divine and diabolical, sacred and profane are different faces of our collective Being. Therefore angry activism driven by rage, however justified it seems, is really not going to work. I believe that the tangled hierarchy wants us to move to the next state of evolution and very strongly desires us to take that quantum leap of creativity.Collection: Moving
Vegetarianism is a healthier diet.Collection: Vegetarianism
Consciousness is nothing but awareness the composite of all the thing we pay attention to.Collection: Attention
Whatever mistake you have made about who you are is temporary. Your true identity has remained untouched. You have never sinned against it or affected it in any way except to lose touch with it.Collection: Mistake
When we stop interfering and are wise enough to let the psychophysiological connection work for us instead of against us, our minds rush as quickly as possible towards perfect health.Collection: Wise
As is the microcosm, so is the macrocosm, As is the atom, so is the universe, As is the human mind, so is the cosmic mind.Collection: Mind
The coexistence of opposites - stillness and dynamism - makes you independent... When you quietly acknowledge this exquisite coexistence of opposites, you align yourself with the world of energy - the quantum soup, the non-material non-stuff that is the source of the material world. This world energy is fluid, dynamic, resilient, changing, forever in motion. And yet it is also non-changing, still, quiet, eternal and silent.Collection: Independent
The soul is a living, dynamic part of each person. It exists as consciousness and therefore must be found in consciousness.Collection: Soul
No matter whether "I" feels victorious or defeated, elated or discouraged, these are mere phantoms compared to consciousness itself.Collection: Matter
The only preparation or participation required to unleash the power of intention is a connection to the conscious intelligence field, which can be attained in many ways, one of the best being meditation.Collection: Meditation
If you’re really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world…you should have faith in yourself.Collection: Spiritual
Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.Collection: Spiritual
Although we think that we think, most of the time we are being thought by the collective mind, the hypnosis of conditioning.Collection: Thinking
The brain is a dynamic system that constantly processes and creates your reality. It works best if you balance all the things that the brain is good at. The brain is good at being adaptable, flexible, creative, and intelligent. But it's also good at playing and just being. A balanced life provides time - every day if possible - so that every function of the brain is allowed to come alive and flourish.Collection: Intelligent
You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.Collection: Wish
If the fate of the universe was decided in a single moment at the instant of the Big Bang , that was the most creative moment of all.Collection: Spiritual
Within every desire is the mechanics of its fulfillment.Collection: Spiritual
Uncertainty is the fertile ground of pure creativity and freedom.Collection: Creativity
Losing friends and spouses is an inevitable part of aging, and many people have a tendency to go quietly into semi-isolation. Instead, set your intention on expanding and deepening the love in your life.Collection: People
We have a pharmacy inside us that is absolutely exquisite. It makes the right medicine, for the precise time, for the right target organ—with no side effects.Collection: Philosophy
Everyday life surrounds us in a swirling chaos, and it's easy to fall into the grip of our ego's fears and confusion. Remind yourself each day of your intentions and spiritual purpose. Meditate, find your center, look closely at yourself, and don't let go of your intention until it feels centered inside yourself.Collection: Letting Go
The reason that ego and love are not compatible comes down to this: you cannot take your ego into the unknown, where love wants to lead. If you follow love, your life will become uncertain, and the ego craves certainty.Collection: Love You
The Sanskrit word namaste means 'The spirit in me honors the spirit in you.' Whenever you first make eye contact with another person, say 'Namaste' silently to yourself. This is a way of acknowledging that the being there is the same as the being here.Collection: Mean
At this moment, you are seamlessly flowing with the cosmos. There is no difference between your breathing and the breathing of the rain forest, between your bloodstream and the world’s rivers, between your bones and the chalk cliffs of Dover.Collection: Spiritual
As we meditate regularly, we let go of the conditioned beliefs and accumulated physical and mental toxicity that cloud our perception of our essential, unbounded nature.Collection: Letting Go
Fighting your ego is a melodrama of the ego.Collection: Fighting
Our brains are too slow to register that every concrete object is winking in and out of existence at the quantum level thousands of times per second.Collection: Brain
You can get the highest quality sleep by keeping your sleep cycles in tune with the rhythms of the universe (known as circadian rhythms).Collection: Sleep
We've just done a five-day retreat at the Chopra centre and people who went to the meditation retreat saw their anti-ageing enzyme increase by 40 per cent. We looked at their 23,000 genes and the self-healing genes were up regulated and all the genes related to heart disease, cancer and inflammatory diseases, diabetes, they all went down within five days.Collection: Cancer
Ayurveda is the science of life and it has a very basic, simple kind of approach, which is that we are part of the universe and the universe is intelligent and the human body is part of the cosmic body, and the human mind is part of the cosmic mind, and the atom and the universe are exactly the same thing, but with different form, and the more we are in touch with this deeper reality, from where everything comes, the more we will be able to heal ourselves and at the same time heal our planet.Collection: Simple
Complications take many forms, including an imbalanced lifestyle, toxic relationships, hidden emotional debts, resistance, indecision, addictions, and negative conditioned beliefs. When our life is overly complicated, we're weighed down by superfluous things at every level.Collection: Emotional
When your awareness is contracted, the flow of energy and information throughout your bodymind is hampered. You tend to stay stuck in toxic emotions such as regret, resentment, and self-pity. Non-nurturing habits such as overeating and not exercising take hold. The feedback loop between your mind and your body turns negative, and stress can hit you instantaneously or grind away at you day after day.Collection: Regret
Less than 5% of cancers are related to genes. 95% are influenced by your lifestyle. You are the author of your biological story.Collection: Cancer
I think that is a very important component, to have passion, to have a dream, to have a purpose in life.Collection: Dream
No matter how much it gets abused, the body can restore balance. The first rule is to stop interfering with nature.Collection: Healing
Churchgoers feel righteous, responsible, and obedient to God's will. They view anyone unlike themselves as devoid of values, and therefore unworthy of God's love. By denying God to all those who have strayed from the path of righteousness, the devout are unwittingly taking on themselves a role that belongs only to God.Collection: Spiritual
Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never even have imagined. The coincidences or little miracles that happen every day of your life are hints that the universe has much bigger plans for you than you ever dreamed of for yourself.Collection: Destiny
There is a restless kind of consumer shopping for partners, as if the "right one" can be found by totting up a potential mate's pluses and minuses until the number of pluses matches some mythical standards.Collection: Single
Inertia is comforting, and Americans will be extremely reluctant to make any change that might affect their high standard of living.Collection: Change
In the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, from the prison of past conditioning. Uncertainty is the fertile ground of creativity and freedom.Collection: Change
A psychologically healthy person can, in fact, be defined as someone whose desires actually produce happiness.Collection: Happiness
A verse from the Veda says, 'What you see, you become.' In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes you what you are. This is a quite literal statement.Collection: Attitude
Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.Collection: Wisdom
The intention behind our giving and receiving is the most important thing. When the act of giving is joyful, when it is unconditional and from the heart, then the energy behind the giving increases many times over. But if we give grudgingly, there is no energy behind that giving. If we feel we have lost something through the act of giving, then the gift is not truly given and will not cause increase.Collection: Heart
I try not to live my life worrying about what others think. A core spiritual quality is nonjudgment, which is not just about not judging others, but also not living your life worried about others judging you.Collection: Spiritual
Smile, breathe, and go slowly. Thich Nhat Hanh Don't try to steer the river.Collection: Rivers
From a pure heart anything can be accomplished. If you ask what the universe is doing, it is eavesdropping on your every desire.Collection: Heart
Losing touch with spirit does nothing to the field of creativity, which is beyond harm; but it can do much to damage a person's chance in life.Collection: Creativity