Deepak Chopra Quotations | Page 5

I remember the past, and I learn from it. I rejoice and celebrate in the present, and I re-imagine the future. Now is the moment that never ends.

Today wherever you go, carry the intention of peace, love, and harmony in your heart.

If a child is poor in math but good at tennis, most people would hire a math tutor. I would rather hire a tennis coach.

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.

Base your happiness on being real, not on illusions and expectations.

Foods to eliminate or minimize include items that are canned, frozen, microwaved, or highly processed. Focus on eating a variety of fresh and freshly-prepared food.

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness. It is the goal of every other goal. Ben Henretig has embarked on an ambitious project to document a country and culture that has embraced Happiness as a part of its national policy

Gratitude is one of the most effective ways of getting in touch with your soul.

Your entire universe is in your mind and nowhere else. To expand the universe, expand your mind.

To have a breakthrough, you must consciously connect with the invisible forces that are everywhere around you, urging you to go beyond your old conditioning.

How do we awaken to this true Self? By going within and putting our attention on the silent presence in our heart - the silent witness that is detached from sensory experience and at the same time enjoys that experience in complete freedom.

Creating your own reality is the richest gift you received at birth.

Take advantage of each small success. In this way you close the gap between what you want from life and what it is giving you.

Delight comes only when our soul dances and plays with another.

Love and meaningful relationships are vital to physical and emotional well-being.

Signals from spirit all serve the same purpose; to give you back your life as a creator

Passively accepting your sadness is the same as forgetting to build your own happiness. Happiness is more than a mood. It's a long-lasting state that is more accurately called well-being.

Forgiveness belongs to those who know how to love in the first place.

People who continue to nurture long-term and new friendships as they grow older are more likely to enjoy health and vitality.

Love is an aspect of being, and when you act from being, the power you draw on is limitless because it comes from the source.

The next step in mans evolution will be the survival of the wisest.

We must go beyond the constant clamor of ego, beyond the tools of logic and reason, to the still, calm place within us: the realm of the soul.

The solution is never at the level of the problem. The solution is always love, which is beyond problems.

Inspiration is that state in which mind and heart are connected.

Every man has a purpose, something special that he can do better than anyone else. Your work is to discover this, then give yourself to it. The extent to which you use your skills to add to the world determines your happiness.

You can get the highest quality sleep by keeping your sleep cycles in tune with the rhythms of the universe (known as circadian rhythms).

Gratitude is a state of being in which we feel connected to everything in the universe. It is a fullness of the heart that recognizes the blessings of Nature within and without. Gratitude is love for the goodness of life itself.

The difference between destruction of the immune system and stimulation of the immune system is an interpretation.

To bring yourself love and happiness, do what you can to bring them to others.

Awareness isn't passive. It directly leads to action (or inaction).

You are the world. When you transform yourself, the world you live in will also be transformed.

Love dances in the freshness of the unknown

What you dismiss as an ordinary coincidence may be an opening to an extraordinary adventure.

Before the art of medicine comes the art of belief.

Although yoga is commonly portrayed as a popular fitness trend, it's actually the core of the Vedic science that developed in the Indus Valley more than 5,000 years ago.

I place my intention into the vast ocean of all possibilities and allow the universe to work through me.

Wherever you go in the midst of movement and activity, carry your stillness with you. Then the chaotic movement around you will never overshadow your access to the reservoir of creativity, the field of pure potentiality.

Every cell in your body is seeking fulfillment through joy, beauty, love and appreciation.

In our willingness to step into the unknown, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe.

Getting regular restful sleep is an essential key to staying healthy and vital, yet it is so often neglected or underemphasized.

Every cell in your body is eavesdropping on your thoughts.

Every instance since the beginning of time has been a coincidence: A leaf in a tree embodies the combined efforts of the earth, water, wind, stars, and sunshine. When you realize that everything has led to the present, to this moment, you see there's nothing to be afraid of, nothing to be burdened by. The present moment is the moment of arrival - and it took the entire universe to create it. All is as it should be.

Don't regret the past or fear the future. Both bring misery through self-doubt.

Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.

Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.

Well-being changes as we move through life, which is why a child's version of it cannot be the same as an old person's.

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

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

Be willing to redefine yourself every day.

Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.

There are many meditation techniques, and it's important to find one that resonates with you.

The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.

If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.

Once war becomes a clash of absolutes, there is no breathing room for mercy. Absolute truth is blind truth.

Each of us is here to discover our true selves; that essentially we are spiritual beings who have taken manifestation in physical form; that we're not human beings that have occasional spiritual experiences, that we're spiritual beings that have occasional human experiences

Foods that are deep blue, purple, red, green, or orange are leaders in antioxidants and contain many nutrients that boost immunity and enhance health.

What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul.

The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity.

Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. Let go & it will be yours forever.

Good luck is opportunity meeting preparedness.

Complications take many forms, including an imbalanced lifestyle, toxic relationships, hidden emotional debts, resistance, indecision, addictions, and negative conditioned beliefs. When our life is overly complicated, we're weighed down by superfluous things at every level.

My body is a projection of my consciousness.

God descends to earth like fresh spring rain, and at every level his grace is received differently. For some it feels like love, for others like salvation. It feels like safety and warmth at one level, like coming home at another.

The Universe contains three things that cannot be destroyed; Being, Awareness and LOVE

There exists within each of us a natural state of simple and open awareness in which we feel happy, light, and at peace. In contrast, the state of suffering, or unhappiness, is complicated.

Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dance, even when we can't name the tune.

If the fate of the universe was decided in a single moment at the instant of the Big Bang , that was the most creative moment of all.

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

One of the keys to harnessing this potentially unlimited power of the mind is to expand your level of self-awareness.

You are not the drop in the ocean, but the ocean in the drop.

If you could really see that tree over there," Merlin said, "you would be so astounded that you'd fall over." "Really? But why?" asked Arthur. "It's just a tree." "No," Merlin said, "It's just a tree in your mind. To another mind it is an expression of infinite spirit and beauty. In God's mind it is a dear child, sweeter than anything you can imagine.

Time is just quantified eternity.

The secrets of alchemy exist to transform mortals from a state of suffering and ignorance to a state of enlightenment and bliss.

Never forget your real identity. You are a luminous conscious stardust being forged in the crucible of cosmic fire.

No single decision you ever made has led in a straight line to where you find yourself now. You peeked down some roads and took a few steps before turning back. You followed some roads that came to a dead end and others that got lost at too many intersections. Ultimately, all roads are connected to all other roads.

To maintain a youthful mind, write down two or three things you can do that are totally childlike, such as eating an ice cream cone, coloring a picture, or jumping rope. Find something that brings back the sense of fun you had as a child and choose one of these activities to do today.

Time exists so that you can experience these flavors as deeply as possible. On the path of devotion, if you can experience even a glimmer of love, its possible to experience a little more love. When you experience that a little more, then the next degree of intensity is possible. Thus, love engenders love until you reach the point of saturation, when you totally merge with the divine love. this is what the mystics mean when they say that they plunge into the ocean of love to drown themselves.

The willingness to reach inside every part of yourself opens the door to total understanding. You place your entire identity on the line, not just an isolated part. This may sound daunting, but actually it’s the most natural way to approach any situation. When you hold some part of yourself in reserve you deny it exposure to life; you repress its energy and keep it form understanding what it needs to know.

Be content not with your lot in life but with being here in the flow of life. The glories of creation are in your very cells; you are made of the same mindstuff as the angels, the stars, and god himself.

Never forget that you are not in the world; the world is in you. When anything happens to you, take the experience inward. Creation is set up to bring you constant hints and clues about your role as co-creator. Your soul is metabolizing experience as surely as your body is metabolizing food

As you let go of the complications, emotional toxins, and everything else that isn't serving you, you will be free to experience the happiness that exists in simplicity.

Why are we here? We exist not to pursue happiness, which is fleeting, or outer accomplishment, which can always be bettered. We are here to nourish the self.

No matter what advantages you are born with-- money, intelligence, an appealing personality, a sunny outlook, or good social connections-- none of these provides a magic key to an easy existence. Somehow life manages to bring difficult problems, the causes of untold suffering and struggle. How you meet your challenges makes all the difference between the promise of success and the specter of failure.

Freedom comes when you see the built-in contradiction of trying to manipulate something that is going right to begin with.... Stop trying to steer the river.

Words are not brains, you know.

Children offer the finest expressions of openness and flexibility. They play and laugh freely, and find wonder in the smallest things.

We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity. If we share with caring, lightheartedness, and love, we will create abundance and joy for each other. And then this moment will have been worthwhile.

The healthiest response to life is joy.

Life is like an eternal dance. The movements of the dance are choreographed through your awareness.

Here are a few ways to face a habit and say "no" to it: Go outside your fixed routine; turn off the computer and the television; find a new outlet for your down time; talk to someone who holds a viewpoint contrary to yours and pay respectful attention, really listening.

What we don't recognize is that holding onto resentment is like holding onto your breath. You'll soon start to suffocate.

The true purpose of yoga is to discover that aspect of your being that can never be lost.

Joy is a return to the deep harmony of body, mind, and spirit that was yours at birth and that can be yours again. That openness to love, that capacity for wholeness with the world around you, is still within you.

Real happiness comes from having an unassailable connection to the deep state of unbounded awareness at our core. This state of being is our own inner joy that expresses the exuberance and wonder of being alive at this moment; it is our own self-luminous essence made conscious of itself.

Unity consciousness is a state of enlightenment where we pierce the mask of illusion which creates separation and fragmentation. Behind the appearance of separation is one unified field of wholeness. Here the seer and the scenery are one.

Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

Beyond the mind, at the deepest level of consciousnesss, resides the spirit. This is the part of us that is eternal, unchanging, and imbued with pure unlimited potential. Tapping into this potential is what enables us to manifest miracles.

The love you seek is seeking you at this moment.

You break free when you feel neither beneath anyone nor superior to anyone, when you shed the need to control other people, when you create space for others to be who they are and for your real self to be what it is.

Instead of resisting any emotion, the best way to dispel it is to enter it fully, embrace it and see through your resistance.