Quotes from Deepak Chopra

Spiritual teachers tell us if you want to know the state of your personal consciousness, just look around and see what is happening to you. If you want to know the state of the collective consciousness, just look around at what is happening in the world. At any given point in time your personal reality is synchronistically, coincidentally orchestrated by your sense of self.

Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature, and you will find that, behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in fact, religious.

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Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others; let others have their way; do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.

Second, withdraw from shaming others. This behavior is a disguise for you. You think that if you gossip, tear people down, try to look superior, or in any other way go on the attack, you will find protection from your own vulnerability. In reality, all you are doing is immersing yourself in the culture of shame. Step away; you can't afford to be there any longer.

Tu cerebro contiene alrededor de cien mil millones de células nerviosas que establecen un billón, o quizá incluso un trillón, de conexiones llamadas sinapsis. Estas conexiones están en un constante estado de remodelación dinámica en respuesta al mundo que te rodea. Son una minúscula, pero estupenda, maravilla de la naturaleza.

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People often speak of bad karma, concentrating on the aspect of wrong; but in its purest form, karma can be right or wrong and still leave an imprint.

The voice of silence speaks clearly in those moments, and you can ask it to speak anytime you want. In time it will become the voice you trust more than anything else.

When you're not distracted by self-image, you can only be in the state of innocence.

Ask yourself, if money was no concern and you had all the time and money in the world, what would you do? If you would still do what you currently do, then you are in dharma, because you have passion for what you do — you are expressing your unique talents. Then ask yourself: How am I best suited to serve humanity? Answer that question, and put it into practice.

Resulta trágicamente irónico que el mismo cerebro que es capaz de conquistar el miedo pueda también someternos a los miedos que atormentan nuestras vidas.

Innocence is our natural state, before it becomes covered over. What covers it over is self-image. When we look at ourselves, even when we're trying to be completely honest, we see an image built up over many years, in layers that are complexly woven together. The lines and wrinkles that develop in a person's face tell the story of past happiness and sadness, triumph and defeat, ideals and experiences. It is almost impossible to see anything else.

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You feel resentful to be on the low side of the comparison, yet being on the high side brings no peace either, because there's no such thing as being better all the time. So this is a great game to give up---you win by walking away.

God is offended when we do not feel joy - Baal Shem Tov

I" must surrender every claim of the ego, whether public or private, to seek a higher state of consciousness.

Reality is an interpretation.

I cannot be more specific, because the process does not happen in books but in living persons. People have drunk grape juice and recovered from cancer. If you can successfully restore balance to the bodymind, then the patient's immune system will respond. The immune cells do not judge whether the doctor believes in conventional medicine, homeopathy, or Ayurveda. Insofar as it can change our participation in disease, every system is capable of working.

Se ci lasciamo trascinare dalle forze del mondo fisico, che possono essere più o meno bene intenzionate, finiamo per distrarci e allontanarci dal destino della nostra anima. Cominciamo a desiderare cose che non sono adatte a noi e a formulare intenzioni che non collimano con quelle dell'universo.

The need for security calls for a protector; achievement calls for a motivator; cooperation calls for a team builder; understanding calls for a nurturer; creativity calls for an innovator; moral values call for a transformer; spiritual fulfillment calls for a sage, or seer.

The idol of yourself is the mother of all idols.

If the only tool you have in your toolbox is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail.

Praeitis, dabartis ir ateitis yra m?s? s?mon?s savyb?s. Praeitis – tai prisiminimai, ateitis – laukimas, o dabartis – tikrasis suvokimas. Tod?l laikas yra minties judesys. Ir praeitis, ir ateitis t?ra vaizduot?je, ir tik dabartis – m?s? suvokimas – yra amžina. Dabartyje slypi laiko – erdv?s, materijos ir energijos potencialas.