Quotes from Deepak Chopra

Ruling the world is child's play. To truly rule your soul is like ruling creation. It is above even the gods.

THE THIRD PRINCIPLE describes how your mind creates your reality—and how, by mastering your inner dialogue, you can literally transform reality to create abundance.

Duality makes us believe that making good decisions and avoiding bad ones is all-important. Buddha disagrees—he says that getting out of duality is all-important, and you'll never escape as long as you keep burying yourself deeper into the game of "A-or-B?" Reality isn't A or B. It's both and it's neither.

Upon Waking Let Your First Thought Be, "Thank You

A prominent rabbi sent Einstein an exasperated telegram: "Do you believe in God? Stop. Answer paid. Fifty words." Einstein replied, "I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals himself in the lawful harmony of all that exists, but not in a God who concerns himself with the fate and the doings of mankind.

Tell me just one thing. Why did you weep tears when you saw my son?" asked Suddhodana. "Because I will not live long enough to hear the immortal truth that Buddha will speak," Asita said.

Through silence, through meditation, and through non-judgment, you will access the first law, the Law of Pure Potentiality.

Brooding on your negative traits isn't going to bring the shadow to light.

Look at the forest," Buddha replied. "We walk through it every day and believe it to be the same forest. But not a single leaf is the same as yesterday. Every particle of soil, every plant and animal, is constantly changing. You cannot be enlightened as the separate person you see yourself to be because that person has already disappeared, along with everything else from yesterday.

Quiero conocer los pensamientos de Dios … el resto sólo son detalles. — Albert Einstein

Tagore: "Power said to the world, 'You are mine.' Love said to the world, 'I am yours.' Love won.

The only hope for escaping the traps of the conditioned mind is to use its better nature as a thread,

In the blink of an eye, as quickly as he had seen ten thousand previous lifetimes, he saw the human predicament. Everyone was asleep, totally unconscious about their true nature. Some slept fitfully, catching scattered glimpses of the truth. But they quickly fell asleep again. They were the fortunate ones. The bulk of human beings had no glimpse of reality.

Who is content simply to be? You too have felt the peace of simply being. Wake up to that, and you will join me in being free.

At first he had found it hard to settle down completely. As the scriptures say, the mind is like a runaway coach, and the driver never stops whipping the horses. But from inside the coach a voice whispers, "Please stop." At first the team and driver ignore the voice. It is very soft; it never insists. Over time, however, the voice wins obedience, and the driver and horses stop wildly galloping. Bit by bit they slow down until the mind is at rest.

He was convinced that Buddha had revealed a truth that every person could recognize: suffering is a fixed part of life. Fleeing from pain and running toward pleasure would never change that fact. Yet most people spent their whole lives avoiding pain and pursuing pleasure. To them, this was only natural, but in reality they were becoming deeply involved in a war they could never win.

Self-knowledge is an anchor that makes unpredictability tolerable.

Knowledge has organizing power inherit in it. It is simply enough to know.

Like anything else, knowledge must evolve.

You have to understand the teen years of any leader to understand the mechanics of their leadership.

The important message of the energy of attraction is in learning to master your choices in the present to create a personal reality that reflects this expanded consciousness.

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.

In a person's career, well, if you're process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you're more likely to be success. I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.

Once you're more aware of people's needs, you can create action plans for others to follow. That way, you're responsible for your own well-being, too.