Quotes from Deepak Chopra

Los estudios sobre la gente que ha conseguido mantener un buen estado de salud a los cien años indican que su mayor secreto es la capacidad de amoldarse. Los centenarios han sufrido los mismos reveses y decepciones que todo el mundo, pero parecen tener más facilidad para recuperarse y quitarse de encima las cargas del pasado.

Beware of arguments based on probability. When he was a young man, Einstein worked as a clerk in the Swiss Patent Office. What are the odds that a clerk in the same office today will be the next Einstein? It's an absurd question to pose that way (like asking the odds that a deaf person will become the next Beethoven).

During sexual activity, oxytocin rises in women, making them bond with their sexual partners emotionally, but the effect doesn't seem to happen in men. Something strange

On some dimension or other, every event in life can be causing only one of two things: Either it is good for you, or it is bringing up what you need to look at in order to create good for you.

up to five hundred genes change their output when a person makes positive lifestyle changes, such as improved diet, moderate exercise, meditation, and stress management.

Tu cerebro no solo interpreta el mundo, lo crea.

To see through the mask of evil, search for the light that is the essence of everything. The fruit of this search is revelation; the light reveals itself of its own accord.

usa tu cerebro, no dejes que tu cerebro te use a ti. La rabia en la carretera es un ejemplo de lo que ocurre cuando tu cerebro te utiliza, pero también lo son los recuerdos nocivos, las heridas de viejos traumas, los malos hábitos que no puedes dejar y, lo más trágico de todo, las adicciones descontroladas.

You don't give up the intention; and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the result.

So whatever is outside time and space is inconceivable, and unfiltered reality would probably blow the brain's circuits, or simply be blanked out.

The illusion was created by (mortals), and now they believe in it too strongly. They use their power to create a drama of birth and death, joy and pain.... In truth, the darkness has no power other than what they give it.... (T)he secret of conquering evil (is) YOU ARE EVIL. When you can face that, all monsters dissolve into the mist.... All monsters live in a dark place where mortals stuff their fears and shame and guilt.

But time stands still in the dark.

El pasado es historia, el futuro un misterio, y este momento es un regalo. Es por eso que a este momento se le llama presente".

Cualquier cosa que experimentes hoy (tu café matutino, el amor que sientes por tu familia, una idea brillante que se te ocurre en el trabajo) ha sido hecha a medida específicamente para ti.

How and why does love promote physical health? When infatuation turns into lasting love, what can this do for our well-being? If love becomes deep enough, does it open the door for higher consciousness? The human experience testifies that love has a unique power in all these areas, and if we investigate deeply enough, there are answers for why this is so.

If the elementary building blocks of matter and energy are conceptual, then the universe itself is bubbling up from a set of ideas or forms, too.

Why are some particles arranged so that we feel we are having a subjective experience?

Jamás comprenderemos cabalmente el cómo, el dónde ni el cuándo de nada, ni siquiera de algo tan simple como el agua hirviendo. Debemos rendirnos a la incertidumbre y apreciar su belleza.

Replace risk with certainty. You have no worries about losing control if you aren't threatened. Once you are certain about yourself, external threats don't exist anymore, because threat is the same as fear, and knowing who you are is a fearless state. Who you are is the true self. Expanded awareness takes you closer to this true self; therefore, fear decreases. When that happens, the issue of control lessens. In its place you experience a state of increased freedom.

Finally, the Kingdom of God could never be one thing. It had to serve too many purposes and was entangled in too many aspects of traditional religion. I think the only way to solve the riddles posed by the Kingdom of God is to say that God exists in different places depending on your level of consciousness. This becomes critical on the spiritual path, because as your own awareness shifts, God does, too.

As things stand, most people approach life from the bottom up, giving their material needs priority.

Let go, allow, and it will be yours.

The mind, spirit, and soul are all nonphysical realities and are not easily differentiated with language derived from sensory experience.

Sunday Law of Pure Potentiality Monday Law of Giving and Receiving Tuesday Law of Karma (or Cause and Effect) Wednesday Law of Least Effort Thursday Law of Intention and Desire Friday Law of Detachment Saturday Law of Dharma (or Purpose in Life)