Deepak Chopra Quotations | Page 6

When we become quiet and introduce our intentions into the field of pure potentiality, we harness the universe's infinite organizing power, which can manifest our desires with effortless ease.

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.

Everything that is happening at this moment is a result of the choices you've made in the past.

Your awareness has its source in unity. Instead of seeking outside yourself, go to the source to realize who you are.

Everyone who experiences a spontaneous peak experience tries to recapture the bliss, but most are disappointed. They search for fulfillment in the next job, a new relationship, more money, a coveted car, accolades, and accomplishments.

Intentions compressed into words enfold magical power.

The energy born of love is creative - it makes everything it touches new. To see how passionate you are, look around at what you have created.

See the world as if for the first time; see it through the eyes of a child, and you will suddenly find that you are free.

Where nature goes to create stars, galaxies, quarks and leptons, you and I also go to create ourselves.

Yoga has moved from relative anonymity in the West to a well-recognized practice offered in thousands of studios, community centers, hospitals, gyms, and health clubs.

Everything that happens to us is a reflection of who we are.

As human beings we have unlimited potential and imagination. The worst thing you can do is be a conformist and buy into conformity. It's the worst possible thing. It's better to be outrageous. It's better to hang out with the sages, the people open to possibilities, even the psychotics. You never know where you'll find the geniuses of our society.

Challenges arise to make us aware of our inner purpose.

When our attention is on the present, our life is constantly renewed.

When the rhythms of our body-mind are in synch with nature's rhythms, when we are living in harmony with life, we are living in the state of grace. To live in grace is to experience that state of consciousness where things flow effortlessly and our desires are easily fulfilled. Grace is magical, synchronistic, coincidental, joyful. It's that good-luck factor. But to live in grace we have to allow nature's intelligence to flow through us without interfering.

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.

Together we can help create a peaceful, just, sustainable and healthy world.

Meditation refreshes our mind and helps us let go of old patterns. We spend less time dwelling on the past or worrying about the future; instead, we are focused on the present.

Now take all these qualities together: order, balance, evolution and intelligence. What you have is a description of love. It's not the popular ideal, it is the wizard's love - the force that upholds life and nurtures it.

Bring into your mind anyone against whom you have a grievance and let it go. Send that person your forgiveness.

The reason that ego and love are not compatible comes down to this: you cannot take your ego into the unknown, where love wants to lead. If you follow love, your life will become uncertain, and the ego craves certainty.

If you create any open space within yourself, love will fill it.

Uncertainty is the fertile ground of pure creativity and freedom.

Discover your own discontent, and be grateful, for without divine discontent there would be no creative force.

We may experience a realization of our true Self the first time we meditate, but most often the process of awakening is gradual.

Love is the beginning of the journey, its end, and the journey itself.

Fear, anger, stubbornness, and distrust portray themselves as your rescuers. Actually these energies only make you more closed off. Tell yourself: Nobody ever solved a situation by panicking; no one ever solved a situation by refusing to hear new answers; no one solved a situation by shutting down...

Bliss is not a feeling but a state of being. In the state of bliss, everything is loved.

Sex is always about emotions. Good sex is about free emotions; bad sex is about blocked emotions.

As you take steps to expand your awareness, you will naturally find yourself harnessing your mind's infinite power to create greater health, happiness, and love in your life.

Intelligence is present everywhere in our bodies . . . our own inner intelligence is far superior to any we can try to substitute from the outside.

Our most natural state is joy. It is the foundation for love, compassion, healing, and the desire to alleviate suffering.

By becoming a conscious choice-maker, you begin to generate actions that are evolutionary for you.

Take responsibility for making conscious choices.

Living in the present moment creates the experience of eternity.

Desire is what leads you through life until the time comes when you desire a higher life. So do not be ashamed that you want so much, yet at the same time do not fool yourself into thinking that what you want today will be enough tomorrow.

Human beings are made of body, mind and spirit. Of these, spirit is primary, for it connects us to the source of everything, the eternal field of consciousness.

Remain open to as much input as possible.

Real happiness is when you are happy for no reason at all; you are simply being.

For everyone, well-being is a journey. The secret is committing to that journey and taking those first steps with hope and belief in yourself.

When your actions are motivated by love, you expend least effort and your energy multiplies, allowing you to create anything you want, with a spirit of play and joy. When you seek power and control over others, you waste energy chasing the illusion of happiness.

At the level of spirit, everything is always unfolding perfectly.

In reality there is nothing to fear in the present. Fear is projected onto the present by memory.

The body is held together by sound. The presence of disease indicates that some sounds have gone out of tune.

The normal experience of the body and its aging is a conditioned response (a habit of thinking and behavior). By changing your habits of thinking and behavior, you can change the experience of your body and its aging

Once, when we were discussing a world peace project with my teacher, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, somebody asked him, Where is all the money going to come from? And he replied without hesitation, From wherever it is at the moment.

When you discover your essential nature and know who you really are, in that knowing itself is the ability to fulfill any dream you have, because you are the eternal possibility, the immeasurable potential of all that was, is, and will be.

Having everything is just an expression of complete inner freedom.

We all want to experience more happiness, fulfillment, and peace.

Making every desire come true is not difficult once you realize that the same thing is always at work - you are transforming pure awareness from one state to another.

Just as a wave is a movement of the whole ocean, you are the energy of the cosmos. Don't underestimate your power.

Like hunger or thirst, the instinct for balance is built into the human body.

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

While the mind lives in the past and the future, the body lives in the now.

The most effective way to transform into higher consciousness is to pay attention in the present moment.

The only people who really worry about money are the very poor and the very rich.

Desires are seeds waiting for their season to sprout. From a single seed of desire, whole forests grow.

The measure of your enlightenment is the degree to which you are comfortable with paradox, contradiction, and ambiguity.

How can I create a better world? The more you reflect, the more your life will move into the answer.

If you approach a difficult problem without struggle, your ego will at first try to take charge from years of habit. Do the minimum and stand back. Solutions incubate at a deep level, not at the speed demanded by your mind. Take a break and come back the next day. Allow the answers to arise from your center, even if it takes a while. However much you have to retrain yourself in this practice of Least Effort, the ability to come from your center is worth the highest price anyone could pay.

Only intimacy with the self will bring about true healing.

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

In a quiet place, close your eyes, take a deep breath, and go inward. Place your attention on your heart, in the center of your chest. Sit quietly and easily let your attention remain there.

Our real reality is beyond the five senses.

Spirit is passionate; without passion no one can be truly spiritual.

Knowledge of any kind ... brings about a change in awareness from where it is possible to create new realities.

By removing the obstacles that have built up over time, you can grow your brain from baseline to super brain.

We are the universe pretending to be individuals.

If we were able to live at the level of the soul all the time, there would be no need for hindsight to appreciate the great truths of life.

Sex wasn't God's big mistake. Judging against sex was humanity's big mistake. Pleasure is as divine as any cathedral, any temple.

Self-awareness is your awareness of the world, which you experience through the five senses (sound, touch, sight, taste, and smell). Pay attention to your sensory impressions and be aware of those five ways that the world comes to you.

If we could learn to live from the level of the soul, we would see that the best most luminous part of ourselves is connected to all the rhythms of the universe. We would truly know ourselves as the miracle-makers we are capable of being.

Every experience of love, bliss, belonging, inspiration, and insight provides a stepping stone back to your true self.

Every single problem that you have in your life, is the seed of an opportunity for some greater benefit. Stay alert to opportunities by being grounded in the wisdom of uncertainty! When your preparedness meets opportunity the solution will spontaneously appear!

Every second of time is a doorway to unbounded possibilities. Yet if you are not open to them, these possibilities shrink.

Today, I behold all the abundance that surrounds me.

You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.

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?

Everything I desire is within me.

Love is the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe and transcends all boundaries.

When you look at nutrition from a purely scientific point of view, there is no place for consciousness. And yet, consciousness could be one of the crucial determinants of the metabolism of food itself.

The universe has a body and soul and evolves through cosmic time. As microcosms of stardust, we do the same.

If you say, "I'm bursting with joy," a scientist could analyze your skin and find it loaded with neuropeptides that may have antidepressant effects and that may modulate the immune system. If you say, "I feel exhilarated, unbounded, and joyful," and I were to examine your blood, I would find high levels of interleukin and interferon, which are powerful anticancer drugs.

When love and spirit are brought together, their power can accomplish anything. Then love, power, and spirit are one.

When you perceive yourself as spirit, you will not simply feel love - you will BE love.

Like anything else, knowledge must evolve.

If you are not astonished that you exist, your humanity is not complete.

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

The quality of one's life depends on the quality of attention.

Every thought, feeling, and emotion creates a molecule known as a neuropeptide. Neuropeptides travel throughout your body and hook onto receptor sites of cells and neurons. Your brain takes in the information, converts it into chemicals, and lets your whole body know if there's trouble in the world or cause for celebration. Your body is directly influenced as these molecules course through the bloodstream, delivering the energetic effect of whatever your brain is thinking and feeling.

Everything is the same spirit watching itself through the eyes of different observers.

Judgment is guilt wearing a moral mask to disguise its pain.

Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things to aim for.

Your biological age is a critical component in the entire aging process, and again, can be very different from your chronological age.

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.

No solution can ever be found by running in three different directions.

Inner silence promotes clarity of mind; It makes us value the inner world; It trains us to go inside to the source of peace and inspiration when we are faced with problems and challenges.

I use memories but I will not allow memories to use me.

No matter what the situation is...close your eyes and think of all the things you could be grateful for in your life right now.

The deeper meaning and gift of yoga is the path it offers us into the timeless, spaceless world of spirit.