Quotes from Deepak Chopra

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

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.

Just listen to your body, eat in silence and see what feels good and you will spontaneously choose the foods that are beneficial to you.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

The fear of death comes from limited awareness.

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

But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.

We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.

I've always felt that technology can be used to our benefit and should be used to our benefit.

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.

Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.

I, of course, meditate for two hours every morning. It's part of my schedule I wake up at 4 a.m. every day and I love it.

You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.

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

The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality.

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

Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given.

Ordinary people aren't going to give up emotions and inspiration just because science sniffs at subjectivity. Science shouldn't be so edgy and defensive. Vandals aren't going to smash their way into laboratories and throw Bibles at the equipment.

Religion is confining and imprisoning and toxic because it is based on ideology and dogma. But spirituality is redeeming and universal.

Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

Skeptics squat by the road like guardians of truth, letting no one pass who doesn't come up to scratch. They never realize that they can see only what their paradigm tells them to look for. If you judge a person only by how well he plays pool, Mozart won't pass scrutiny, but the fault is in your lens.

The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God.

You cannot stand anywhere in the universe that is outside of yourself.