Quotes from Deepak Chopra

When I looked at the addictive qualities of video games and how they captivate people's attention, I decided to try the same technology for enhancing well-being.

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

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

Religions take donations and don't pay taxes.

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.

Smile, breathe, and go slowly. Thich Nhat Hanh Don't try to steer the river.

The soul knows everything. Be who you are and your life will transform forever.

All great changes are preceded by chaos.

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

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

Change your story, change your life. Basically, that's what it is.

It is much more beneficial to your health if you feel your way through life than think your way through life.

You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.

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.

You will begin to see your life as an opportunity to share the special gift you alone can bestow upon the world.

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.

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.

The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor's badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully.

Our minds influence the key activity of the brain, which then influences everything; perception, cognition, thoughts and feelings, personal relationships; they're all a projection of you.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

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

The world in general has meaning, deep meaning at times. This cannot be dismissed as a delusion, an artifact of chemicals.

Self-awareness is not just relaxation and not just meditation. It must combine relaxation with activity and dynamism. Technology can aid that.

Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.