Deepak Chopra Quotations | Page 8

Most human behavior is nothing other than the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure.

When you're in touch with spirit, you put feeling over results.

The essence of God is consciousness. Consciousness can be used for either violence or peace; the choice is ours. When it is expanded, human consciousness chooses non-violence, since that is compatible with love.

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

True ecstasy is stepping out of the bondage of the time-bound, space-bound world. We long to be free of fear and limitation. We hunger to experience our infinite, unbounded Self.

I want to offer the possibility that Jesus was truly, as he proclaimed, a savior. Not the savior, not the one and only Son of God. Rather Jesus embodied the highest level of enlightenment.

Everyone is acting from his own level of consciousness. This is all we can ask of ourselves or anyone else. However hurtful someone is, he is doing the best he can, given the limits of his consciousness.

Love can heal. Love can renew. Love can make us safe. Love can inspire us with its power. Love can bring us closer to God.

Memory is useful because it gives us a sense of continuity. But memory is also imprisoning because it conditions us in predictable ways.

It's an intelligence. It's not - you know, that's the other mistake we make, is we tend to project how we think of ourselves onto divinity. So divinity being infinite, unbounded, eternal, beyond space and time, is not a he or a she, it's a field of intelligence.

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.

In religion, the ego manifests as the devil. And of course, no one realizes how smart the ego is because it created the devil so you could blame someone else.

Observe the silence between your thoughts, actions, reactions, and you will feel the presence of spirit in the stillness of those spaces.

Treat every moment as a gift, that is why it is called the present.

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

Wall Street is broken for sure because it succumbed to greed and corruption and pure speculation with no values.

Spiritual people should not be ashamed of being wealthy.

Accept that living in the present moment, with your present desires, is the best, the highest thing you can do.

In your present-moment awareness, awaken to your innocence, your trust, your love, your eternal being.

One's attention has to penetrate the chaotic activity, pass through all the layers of subtle thought, and at last emerge into silence. This is the basic process of transcending.

To be in touch with yourself requires great sensitivity to everything that's going on here and now.

The first spiritual law of success is the Law of Pure Potentiality. This law is based on the fact that we are, in our essential state, pure consciousness. Pure consciousness is pure potentiality; it is the field of all possibilities and infinite creativity. Pure consciousness is our spiritual essence. Being infinite and unbounded, it is also pure joy. Other attributes of consciousness are pure knowledge, infinite silence, perfect balance, invincibility, simplicity, and bliss. This is our essential nature. Our essential nature is one of pure potentiality.

The trees must breathe so I can breathe.

If your attention is focused only on the result, then you are no longer in the process. But if you're in the process, then the result is guaranteed.

Go first class all the way and the universe will respond by giving you the best.

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

Happiness can be woven into every aspect of life once you make new choices.

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.

You can never receive more love than you are prepared to receive.

Each of the seven chakras are governed by spiritual laws, principles of consciousness that we can use to cultivate greater harmony, happiness, and wellbeing in our lives and in the world.

The most powerful way to manifest is through subtle intention and choiceless awareness-inten d to let go and flow.

To be a mentor you need to understand what's going on in a young person's life and you just want to have an internal dialogue that says, 'How can I help? Because I really care.'

In order to live the life we desire, and set the intention for greater happiness and more meaningful connections with others, we have to release the hold that our past has on us

There is a light within each of us that can never be diminished or extinguished. It can only be obscured by forgetting who we are

We either allow our past to keep interfering with our optimal expression of love and happiness, or we can move beyond our past with renewed passion for life

Life is a metaphor for what's happening in your consciousness.

Forgiveness in the heart comes about when the walls of separation in the mind fall.

The best way to prepare for any moment in the future is to be fully conscious in the present.

Approach every day as if it's a new world, because it IS.

Spiritual energy is the one kind that never runs out.

All relationships are a reflection of our relationship to ourself.

All experience is now. Now never ends.

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.

The healthiest people were those who didn't spend money that they hadn't earned, to buy things that they didn't need, to impress people that they didn't like.

You cannot bring the same stale self to the world and expect the world to be new for you.

What will really make you attractive is not working on your weak points but embracing them.

Understand that if a deep desire lives in your heart, a dream that is part of your soul's fiber, a path exists to bring it to life.

We're all born with infinite potential and creativity. We all have it in us. Each and every one of us. That's the only truth

The three things you can offer your children to change them: attention, appreciation and affection.

Our consciousness is our contribution to reality. What we perceive as real, becomes real.

When you feel small and weak, remind yourself that you are a child of the universe who is connected to the infinite source.

One loving thought can change everything.

What happens is consciousness operates in mysterious ways. One of those ways is that the old paradigm suddenly starts to die.

Walk with those seeking truth...

The evolution of the universe depends on the participation of each and every person. . . From your soul's perspective, you are as great an addition to the world as Mahatma Gandhi or Mother Teresa, and subtracting you from the cosmic equation would be just as great a loss. The most exquisite silk remains intact if you pull out a thread, but the snag will show.

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

When you combine the ability to express your unique talent with service to humanity, then you make full use of The Law of Dharma.

Make sure your intentions are not only for yourself, but also for the common good.

Eating is a natural way to feel happy. Overeating isn't.

To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul.

Love is a way of being, not something you give. When a person is truly loving, he is love.

Love is already inside us as our true being; we do not have to make it appear.

Whoever we understand, we love.

The same faint song is heard in everything: "Behold yourself".

Apakah penampilanku satu-satunya hal yang membuatku berharga? Jika begitu, jangan tatap aku. Wajahku bisa menyembunyikan hati yang palsu.

When something seems to change in the world, the rishis said, it is really you that is changing.

Every experience in life changes the brain's anatomy.

If I find a green meadow splashed with daisies and sit down beside a clear-running brook, I have found medicine. It soothes my hurts as well as when I sat in my mother's lap in infancy, because the Earth really is my mother, and the green meadow is her lap.

Before making a decision, ask inside for guidance. Be patient and await an answer. Act only when you feel calm and certain.

It is undeniable that we all create scenarios and then become convinced by them, down to our very cells.

I think the highest forgiveness is to accept that creation is thoroughly tangled, with every possible quality given outlet for expression. People need to accept once and for all that there is only one life and each of us is free to shape it through the choices we make. Seeking can’t get anyone out of the tangle because everything is tangled up…it’s much easier to keep up the fight between good and evil, holy and profane, us and them. But as awareness grows, these opposites begin to calm down in their clashes, and something else emerges- a world you feel at home in.

People don’t realize, he said, how important it is to wake up every morning with a song in your heart.” J. Krishnamurti. “The song stands for a sense of joy in existence, a joy that is free of any good or bad choices.

it’s as if the universe has a sense of humor, since at a deep level it’s impossible not to lead a spiritual life… the universe is living through you at this moment. with or without belief in god, the chain of events leading from silent awareness to physical reality remains intact.

If all of the steps of surrender are present, then a great Rembrandt or Monet will evoke love because the artist is simply there in all his naked humanity.

Either you're a person wondering if you have a soul, or you're a soul who knows that being a person isn't real.

He (God) is right and always has been, because in reality God is only love.

In God's eyes, walking on water is no more miraculous than the ability of hemoglobin to bond with oxygen inside a red blood corpuscle.

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Churchgoers feel righteous, responsible, and obedient to God's will. They view anyone unlike themselves as devoid of values, and therefore unworthy of God's love. By denying God to all those who have strayed from the path of righteousness, the devout are unwittingly taking on themselves a role that belongs only to God.

Most of us take for granted that time flies, meaning that it passes too quickly. But in the mindful state, time doesn't really pass at all. There is only a single instant of time that keeps renewing itself over and over with infinite variety.

Synchronicity is God sending us messages anonymously.

Health is not just the absence of a disease. It's an inner joyfulness that should be ours all the time; a state of positive well-being.

If you live the questions, life will move you into answers.

We go where our deepest desires take us.

Forgiveness is a feeling.

Negative emotions are like unwelcome guests. Just because they show up on our doorstep doesn't mean they have a right to stay.

There is a restless kind of consumer shopping for partners, as if the "right one" can be found by totting up a potential mate's pluses and minuses until the number of pluses matches some mythical standards.

Inertia is comforting, and Americans will be extremely reluctant to make any change that might affect their high standard of living.

In the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, from the prison of past conditioning. Uncertainty is the fertile ground of creativity and freedom.

A psychologically healthy person can, in fact, be defined as someone whose desires actually produce happiness.

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.

Spiritually, no action is more important than surrender. Surrender is the tenderest impulse of the heart, acting out of love to give whatever the beloved wants. Surrender is being alert to exactly what is happening now, not imposing expectations from the past. Surrender is faith that the power of love can accomplish anything, even when you cannot foresee the outcome of a situation.

When you let go of the need for any and all outcomes life becomes a creative magical adventure.

The present moment is the still point around which the universe arises and subsides, only to be reborn again, fresh as a new born child.

A verse from the Veda says, 'What you see, you become.' In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes you what you are. This is a quite literal statement.

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

What you call flaws are really just scars and wounds accumulated over a lifetime.

When we heed the call of our deepest desires, we fulfill our true destinies.

The Universe is a mirror of consciousness...

Craving security is the cause of insecurity. Freedom is knowing that the only point of arrival is now.