Deepak Chopra

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.

I of course meditate for two hours every morning. It's part of my schedule, I wake up at 4 a.m. every day and I love it.

Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.

All religions develop become exclusive become divisive and quarrelsome.

There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.

Victims always feel alone and helpless.

We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster.

Religions take donations and don't pay taxes.

I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.

We are not victims of aging sickness and death. These are part of scenery not the seer who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit the expression of eternal being.

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.

There is just no getting around that turning bad things into good things is up to you.

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.

There is no fixed physical reality no single perception of the world just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.

Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.

Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer, independent reality exists, the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth, would still be there if no one was looking.

No matter how closely you examine the water glucose and electrolyte salts in the human brain you can't find the point where these molecules became conscious.

Your immune cells are like a circulating nervous system. Your nervous system in fact is a circulating nervous system. It thinks. It's conscious.

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.

Traditional Islam is a mixture of all obedience to Allah and if that requires militancy so be it.

Success comes when people act together, failure tends to happen alone.

A person is a pattern of behavior of a larger awareness.

No solution can ever be found by running in three different directions.

When I was growing up I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school.

Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.

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.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment we are contributing to the wounding of the world.

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

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.

Muhammad is more human more self-doubting even self-tortured at times. His story is full of adventure intrigue betrayal.

The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode.

Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm, resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.

Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.

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.

Consciousness conceives governs constructs and becomes the activity of the body.

The less you open your heart to others the more your heart suffers.

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.

Although we take it for granted sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.

Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.

And for me anyway consciousness is three components: a personal component which for lack of a better word we can call the soul. A collective component which is more archetypal and a deeper level and then a universal domain of consciousness.

Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.

I teach people that no matter what the situation is no matter how chaotic no matter how much drama is around you you can heal by your presence if you just stay within your center.

Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you're flexible when you're spontaneous when you're detached when you're easy on yourself and easy on others.

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.

The way you think the way you behave the way you eat can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

I grew up with a lot of Muslim friends and the whole idea of revelation has been a lifelong interest of mine.

In my definition of consciousness consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

In the midst of movement and chaos keep stillness inside of you.

You know religion itself Eastern and Western is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.

In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.

The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions because quantity isn't the same as quality.

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.

The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing.

My own training is in the field of neuroendocrinology and I really became very fascinated many years ago with the molecules of emotion molecules that we call neuropeptides.

The physical world including our bodies is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.

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.

Modern medicine for all its advances knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.

Some Western biographies are apologist and do not portray the negative side at all.

We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.