Deepak Chopra
A risk-free life is far from being a healthy life.
New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global sharing, healing the environment, sustainable economies, self-determination, social justice, economic empowerment of the poor, love, compassion in action, going beyond religious fundamentalism, going beyond nationalism-extreme nationalism, culture.
Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.
If insurance companies paid for lifestyle-management classes, they would save huge sums of money. We need to see that alternative medicine is now mainstream.
Consciousness conceives, governs, constructs, and becomes the activity of the body.
I like Muhammad a lot, because he's like us more than anybody else. Jesus is just so exalted, and Buddha is just so exalted, it's almost beyond our reach.
The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.
We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.
From a scientist's perspective, to understand everything that you need to know about human beings, you only have to tinker with all the mechanical parts of genes and the brain until there are no more secrets left.
All of us are living with dogmas that we accept as truths. When one of these is overturned, there's an initial gasp, soon followed by a rush of exhilaration.
Well-being changes as we move through life, which is why a child's version of it cannot be the same as an old person's.
When resources become skimpy, human beings don't suddenly cooperate to conserve what's left. They fight to the last scrap for possession of a diminishing resource.
Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.
We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public life.
Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.
We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster.
Victims always feel alone and helpless.
We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is luxurious by any measure.
Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things to aim for.
Religions take donations and don't pay taxes.
When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school.
Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered.
So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.
Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.
You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.
Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all.
Muhammad is more human, more self-doubting, even self-tortured at times. His story is full of adventure, intrigue, betrayal.
I grew up with a lot of Muslim friends, and the whole idea of revelation has been a lifelong interest of mine.
So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that's just silly.
The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode.
I was always interested in going deeply into the life of the Prophet.
I dislike the word 'self-help.' Self-awareness, yes, but not self-help.
In every conversation I've had - with housewives in Mumbai, with middle-class people, upper-class, in the slums - everyone says there is an underlying consciousness of karma. That people believe in karma - that what you're putting out is going to come back. If I do something to you, the energy of it is going to come back to me in the future.
Our consciousness is our contribution to reality. What we perceive as real, becomes real.Collection: Real
If you live the questions, life will move you into answers.Collection: Change
There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood.Collection: Spiritual
The beginning of suffering is often a refusal to look at the situation as it really is.Collection: Suffering
Knowledge of any kind ... brings about a change in awareness from where it is possible to create new realities.Collection: Reality
Take some time each day to bring clarity to your inner world.Collection: Each Day
What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul.Collection: Spiritual
Every cell in your body is eavesdropping on your thoughts.Collection: Cells
Thinking happy thoughts literally creates a positive chemical change in the brain which stimulates both positive physical and psychological benefits.Collection: Happiness
Most people aren't in touch with their body and tend to live in their thoughts.Collection: People
No matter what the situation, remind yourself "I have a choice."Collection: Positive
The gifts of caring, attention, affection, appreciation, and love are some of the most precious gifts you can give, and they don't cost you anything.Collection: Appreciation
You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks.Collection: Inspirational
If you want to be happy, make someone else happy. If you want to find the right person in your life, be the right person. If you want to see change in the world, become the change you want to see.Collection: World
Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.Collection: Life
In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.Collection: Moving On