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All Quotes by author - Deepak Chopra

" A child in India grows up with the idea that you have to make choices that will create a better future. In fact, your whole life is a continuum of choices, so the more conscious you are, the greater your life will be. "

" 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. "

" All religions develop, become exclusive, become divisive and quarrelsome. "

" 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. "

" Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it's realistic or not. "

" 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. "

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

" A risk-free life is far from being a healthy life. "

" As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. You know, the two-year-old dies before the three-year-old shows up, the three-year-old dies before the teenager shows up. "

" Before a brain can register a thought, a mind must think it... every step of the way is mind over matter... We override our brains all the time. "

" Being more aware creates responsibility. What does responsibility mean? It means the ability to respond. The more conscious you are in your ability to respond, the more creative you'll be. "

" But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you. "

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

" Consciousness, rather than being an epiphenomenon of matter, is actually the source of matter. It differentiates into space time, energy, information, and matter. Even though this view is an ancient view, an ancient world view, it is now finding some resonance amongst a few scientists. "

" Dynamic activity and deep rest of the mind are complementary to each other. "

" Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention. "

" Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born. "

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

" For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it's a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted. "

" Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good. "

" I dislike the word 'self-help.' Self-awareness, yes, but not self-help. "

" I feel genius in great works of art. I have seen medical cures that science can't explain, some seemingly triggered by faith. The same is true of millions of other people. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If you want to do really important things in life and big things in life, you can't do anything by yourself. And your best teams are your friends and your siblings. "

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

" I have all the time in the world. I am in touch with the timeless. I am surrounded by infinity. When I think like that, it doesn't mean I'm going to miss my train, it just means that I'm not thinking about it right now because I'm speaking to you. "

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