Deepak Chopra
The healthiest response to life is joy.Collection: Inspirational
If you say, "I'm bursting with joy," a scientist could analyze your skin and find it loaded with neuropeptides that may have antidepressant effects and that may modulate the immune system. If you say, "I feel exhilarated, unbounded, and joyful," and I were to examine your blood, I would find high levels of interleukin and interferon, which are powerful anticancer drugs.Collection: Powerful
Synchronicity is choreographed by a great, pervasive intelligence that lies at the heart of nature, and is manifest in each of us through intuitive knowledge.Collection: Love
One thing we can do is make the choice to view the world in a healthy way. We can choose to see the world as safe with only moments of danger rather than seeing the world as dangerous with only moments of safety.Collection: Views
Long-term meditators can have a biological age 5 to 12 years younger than their chronological age.Collection: Years
As you let go of the complications, emotional toxins, and everything else that isn't serving you, you will be free to experience the happiness that exists in simplicity.Collection: Letting Go
I do not believe in meaningless coincidences. I believe every coincidence is a message, a clue about a particular facet of our lives that requires our attention.Collection: Believe
See the world as if for the first time; see it through the eyes of a child, and you will suddenly find that you are free.Collection: Uplifting
Owning your own feelings, rather than blaming them on someone else, is the mark of a person who has moved from contracted to expanded awareness.Collection: Spiritual
Skeptics squat by the road like guardians of truth, letting no one pass who doesn't come up to scratch. They never realize that they can see only what their paradigm tells them to look for. If you judge a person only by how well he plays pool, Mozart won't pass scrutiny, but the fault is in your lens.Collection: Play
The way to fill your life with love is very simple: if you want more love, give more love.Collection: Simple
Spiritual energy-the energy that comes from pure consciousness-is the creative energy of the universe.Collection: Spiritual
If you are fully aware in the moment, there is only love.Collection: Moments
Listen to your body's wisdom, which expresses itself through signals of comfort and discomfort. When choosing a certain behavior, ask your body, "How do you feel about this?" If your body sends a signal of physical or emotional distress, watch out. If your body sends a signal of comfort and eagerness, proceed.Collection: Emotional
Every child who is born is the universe looking at itself with fresh eyes.Collection: Children
The Universe is a mirror of consciousness.Collection: Mirrors
Craving security is the cause of insecurity. Freedom is knowing that the only point of arrival is now.Collection: Knowing
My favorite: Spirituality is a domain of awareness.Collection: Spiritual
The path to love is our spiritual destiny.Collection: Love
Karma means your have to live with the consequences of the actions you have taken in the past. Whatever you put out is coming back.Collection: Karma
Pay attention to that unchanging part of yourself. It is perfect. At the source of life, and only there, one finds peace, harmony, and the undisturbed contentment of bliss.Collection: Motivational
If you're studying for an exam you're not thinking about the results. If you're always worried about the results, you can't study a lot. So to be engaged and detached from the outcome is excellent. Excellence is behavior. I mean, isn't that what martial arts is about? And that's what meditation is about, that's what, in many ways, sports are about.Collection: Sports
At the most subtle level, your inner intelligence is steadily progressing along the corridors of eternity.Collection: Spiritual
Our Higher Self is the most intimate thing we could possibly know; eternity is the most comfortable home we could possibly fine.Collection: Spiritual
We are powerful magical beings.Collection: Spiritual
Emotion brings in the dimension of bonding or tuning in: An experience that touches your heart makes the meaning that much more personal.Collection: Heart
Let us realize that engagement and detachment aren't opposite-the more engaged we become, the more detached we will have to be.Collection: Inspiring
Had a powerful meditation just now - caused an earthquake in Southern California. Was meditating on Shiva mantra & earth began to shake. Sorry about that.Collection: Sorry
When we transcend our own thoughts, we get in touch with the womb of creation.Collection: Consciousness
Your fellow man is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless.Collection: Honesty
The universe is alive and conscious, and it responds to our intent when we have our intimate relationship with the universe and see it not as separate but as our extended body.Collection: Relationship
Access to your true essence will give you insight into the mirror of relationship, because all relationship is a reflection of your relationship with yourself.Collection: Relationship
This moment - the one you're experiencing right now - is the culmination of all the moments you have experienced in the past. This moment is as it is because the entire universe is as it is.Collection: Change
I personally do not believe in strident activism. I do not believe in moral outrage, because even moral outrage is rage, and rage is rage - it adds to more rage in the collective consciousness, if we understand how consciousness works.Collection: Believe
Addiction is craving fulfillment from something that cannot provide fulfillment. In this sense it is not different than the basic mechanism of ignorance that keeps everyone in bondage. With substance addiction the mind/body sets up a vicious cycle that perpetuates the dependence.Collection: Ignorance
Each of us lives in multi-dimensions. We can choose where to focus our attention, and wherever that focus goes, a new reality opens up. When I speak of other dimensions, I'm referring to domains of consciousness.Collection: Reality
Most human behavior is nothing other than the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure.Collection: Pain
Everyone has a dharma or purpose in life.Collection: Purpose
Ordinary people aren't going to give up emotions and inspiration just because science sniffs at subjectivity. Science shouldn't be so edgy and defensive. Vandals aren't going to smash their way into laboratories and throw Bibles at the equipment.Collection: Giving Up
To love and be loved is the most natural expression of our being.Collection: Expression
You can keep your memory intact, preserve your brain's health, and minimize the risk of aging and senile dementia, things that are greatly feared as people grow older.Collection: Memories
Rigid belief systems, including skeptism, is signing up for the suppression of curiosity.Collection: Curiosity
When we develop reverence for food and the miracle of transformation inherent in it, just the simple act of eating creates a ritual of celebration.Collection: Food
If the most you can do right now is walk around the block, then do that, and you will be surprised how quickly you increase your endurance and enthusiasm for moving and breathing.Collection: Block
My focus is first of all, to remove every thought of violence from my own consciousness.Collection: Focus
When we were children, there was a silent part of us watching the child. When we were adolescents, there was that same witness watching the adolescent. Middle age, and so on. Every one, now and again, has discovered the self, the one who is watching.Collection: Children
Healing is the return of the memory of wholeness. Healing, health, whole and holy all mean inclusiveness. Body, mind, spirit, environment, relationships, social interactions are all one wholeness, and you're a part of that one wholeness.Collection: Memories
When our attention is on the present, our life is constantly renewed.Collection: Attention
Yoga began as a philosophy rather than as a physical discipline.Collection: Philosophy