Deepak Chopra Quotes

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Knowledge about God is of two kinds, direct and indirect. Indirectly we can read scriptures, listen to sermons, consult authorities, and from these sources build a reasonable case that God exists. But such a God transmits no love to Earth. Therefore nothing substitutes for gyana, which is direct knowledge of the divine. Instead of having thoughts about God, you share God's own thoughts. Her thoughts can only be about Herself.

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It isn't love when another person cannot give you the space to live your own life.

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Now I realize that it isn't the miracle that creates the believer. Instead, we are all believers. We believe that the illusion of the material world is completely real. That belief is our only prison. It prevents us from making the journey into the unknown.

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In the face of nature's overwhelming forces, humans needed a God who would protect them from harm. When they felt that they had broken the law or committed wrongdoing, people turned to a God who would judge them on the one hand and redeem their sins on the other. In this way, purely from slef-interest, the project of creating God in our own image proceeded--and continues to proceed.

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Awareness is the birthplace of possibility. Everything you want to do, everything you want to be, starts here.

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Although our package of skin and bones looks very convincing, it is a mask, an illusion, disguising our true self, which has no limitations.

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No matter how much it gets abused, the body can restore balance. The first rule is to stop interfering with nature.

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Stillness alone is the potentiality for creativity; movement alone is creativity restricted to a certain aspect of its expression. But the combination of movement and stillness enables you to unleash your creativity in all directions-wherever the power of your attention takes you.

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When you are in the field of creativity, you lose track of time. Only the flow exists.

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When emotional intelligence merges with spiritual intelligence, human nature is transformed.

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Love takes many forms - it is up to you to choose which you wish to express.

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The love reflected from another person has its source in your own heart.

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I do not believe in meaningless coincidences. I believe every coincidence is a message, a clue about a particular facet of our lives that requires our attention.

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A single event can shape our lives or change the course of history.

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Trust that you are connected to your being, which knows what to do at all times.

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If you consciously let your body take care of you, it will become your greatest ally and trusted partner.

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We have a pharmacy inside us that is absolutely exquisite. It makes the right medicine, for the precise time, for the right target organ—with no side effects.

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No matter whether "I" feels victorious or defeated, elated or discouraged, these are mere phantoms compared to consciousness itself.

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You become the victim of the past, and your tormentor today is your self left over from yesterday.

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The quality of one's life depends on the quality of attention. Whatever you pay attention to will grow more important in your life. There is no limit to the kinds of changes that awareness can produce.

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Puffballs of vanity when they're not being absurdly violent; wretchedly unhappy in their mental prisons and too stubborn to open the door and escape.

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You are the luminous mystery in which the entire universe with its forms and phenomena arises and subsides. When this realization dawns there is a complete transformation of your personal self into your universal self... the complete loss of all fear, including death. You have become a being who radiates love the same way the sun radiates light. You have finally arrived at the place from which your journey began.

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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.

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A man's goodness is truly measured by what he is, not what he does.

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Stop repeating what never worked in the first place. Stand back and ask for a new solution.

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A simple way to make sure that you are getting a balanced diet is to include the six tastes (sweet, salty, sour, pungent, bitter, and astringent) in each meal. Along with the six tastes, filling your plate with the colors of the rainbow promotes a long and healthy life.

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Eat only when you feel hungry.
Notice and feel your hunger.
This is conscious eating.

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Like the tiny spark of fire that consumes a forest, the spark of love is all you need to experience love in its full power and glory, in all its aspects, earthly and divine.

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There are some things that require no work, and healing is one of them.

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Imagine for a moment your own version of a perfect future. See yourself in that future with everything you could wish for at this very moment fulfilled. Now take the memory of that future and bring it here into the present. Let it influence how you will behave from this moment on.

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