Quotes from Deepak Chopra

We are attracted to people who have traits we want in ourselves, and usually we are unattracted to people with traits that we share.

The way to fill your life with love is very simple: if you want more love, give more love.

Every day, take some time to meditate and cultivate inner quiet. Then ask yourself what I call the "soul questions": Who am I? What do I want? What is the purpose and meaning of my life?

What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.

We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology.

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.

Karma, memory, and desire are just the software of the soul. It's conditioning that the soul undergoes in order to create experience. And it's a cycle. In most people, the cycle is a conditioned response. They do the same things over and over again.

When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school.

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.

Perceptual reality is different for different species. In certain species it is a mode of observation, so what we call scientific fact is actually not ultimate truth, it is perceptual experience, and it's a mode of observation.

When you make a choice, you change the future.

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.

Gratitude opens the door to... the power, the wisdom, the creativity of the universe. You open the door through gratitude.

The inward journey is about finding your own fullness, something that no one else can take away.

Compassion is a living, breathing, organic emotion that vibrates through you and links you to those around you.

This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.

In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.

For nearly a hundred years, we have known that the material world is an illusion. Everything that seems solid - a rock, a tree, your body - is actually 99.999% empty space.

Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.

When we connect to the infinite source of wisdom within, creative new ideas, opportunities, and healing spontaneously unfold.

Gregg Braden is a rare blend of a scientist, visionary, and scholar, with the ability to speak to our minds, while touching the wisdom of our hearts.

Embrace the wisdom of uncertainty.

The essence of wisdom is to see that there is always a solution once you realize that the mind, which seems to create so much suffering, has infinite potential to create fulfillment instead.

Your conscious brain cannot multitask. If I'm speaking to you and checking my I-Phone at the same time, I'm doing neither. This is why our society is frazzled; this misconception that we can consciously do more than one thing at a time effectively.