Deepak Chopra Quotations | Page 9

My favorite: Spirituality is a domain of awareness.

The path to love is our spiritual destiny.

The transformation from separation to unity, from conflict to peace, is the goal of all spiritual traditions.

Passion is the energy that love creates with no object other than itself.

Pain in the present is experienced as hurt. Pain in the past is remembered as anger. Pain in the future is perceived as anxiety. Unexpressed anger, redirected against yourself and held within, is called guilt. The depletion of energy that occurs when anger is redirected inward creates depression.

Even though the body appears to be material, it is not. In the deeper reality, your body is a field of energy, transformation and intelligence.

Money is life energy that we exchange and use as a result of the service we provide to the universe.

When our identity comes from the self, then we keep our energy to ourselves. We feel energetic, we feel powerful, and we experience youthful vigor.

Being in the moment means not being distracted by the melodrama and hysteria around you. Present-moment awareness allows solutions to emerge.

When you were a child you had dreams of becoming somebody as an adult. Have you lived up to your dreams?

Like a cube of ice, anger cannot be eliminated by applying force, only by applying warmth, compassion and kindness.

Forgiveness is attention without judgment. It heals the one who forgives and the one who is forgiven.

My dad said, 'In school, be a Catholic. At home, be a Hindu.' So we did both.

I cherish my every connection. I see the other in myself and myself in others.

When I see and feel the life beat of Spirit in every object, I evolve to a higher level of transformation called consciousness

When you express your unique talents and use them in the service of humanity, you create abundance in your life and the lives of others.

Weve been taught that aging means decline of the mind and body , but that doesnt have to be the case. With TIMELESS YOU, I invite you to explore a different path , one where you feel youthful , vibrant and fit as you age.

The song stands for a sense of joy in existence, a joy that is free of any good or bad choices.

We live in the Age of the Higher Brain, the cerebral cortex that has grown enormously over the last few millennia, overshadowing the ancient, instinctive lower brain. The cortex is often called the new brain, yet the old brain held sway in humans for millions of years, as it does today in most living things. The old brain can't conjure up ideas or read. But it does possess the power to feel and, above all, to be. It was the old brain that caused our forebears to sense the closeness of a mysterious presence everywhere in Nature.

The brain, which operates on electromagnetic impulses, is as much an activity of the universe as are the electromagnetic storms in the atmosphere or on a distant star. Therefore science is one form of electromagnetism that spends it time studying another formscience is god explaining god through a human nervous systemisn't spirituality the same thing?

To the wizard death is merely a belief.

If you pay attention to those aspects of God that demonstrate love, truth, beauty, intelligence, order, and spiritual evolution, those aspects will begin to expand in your life. Bit by bit, like a mosaic, disparate fragments of grace will merge to form a complete picture. Eventually this picture will replace the ore threatening one you have carried around inside you since infancy.

Pure physical sensation, social status, sexual attraction, and feeling like a winner are generally superficial, which is why people hunger for them repeatedly.The only goal worth attaining is complete freedom to be yourself, without illusions and false beliefs.The past and the future exist only in imagination. Everything you did before has no reality. Everything you will do afterward has no reality. Only the thing you are doing now is real.

The current perception I get from the evening news is that the world is dominated by human failure, crime, catastrophe, corruption, and tragedy. We are all tuning in to see how the human mind is evolving, but the media keeps hammering home the opposite, that the human mind is mired in darkness and folly.

Affluence includes money but is not just money. It is the abundance, the flow, the generosity of the universe, where every desire we have must come true, because inherent in having the desire are the mechanics for its fulfillment.

Living in balance and purity is the highest good for you and the earth.

This is real freedom-the ability to enjoy the choices we make in every successive moment of the present.

You cannot be brave if you do not have a coward inside you.

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

Most people talk about fear of the unknown, but if there is anything to fear, it is the known.

Ecstasy carries you completely outside your ego boundaries. In ecstasy you know yourself as cosmic ego, unbounded in time and space.

We forget sometimes that there are saints living among us. When we meet them, we are reminded, not just of the presence of pure divinity right here on earth, but also of our own potential, and of the responsibility we have to try to live up to it, for our own sakes and for the very future of this planet.

Tune into the presence of miracles, and in an instant, life can be transformed into a dazzling experience, more wondrous and exciting than we could even imagine.

This is a precious moment, but it is transient. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.

Pay attention to that unchanging part of yourself. It is perfect. At the source of life, and only there, one finds peace, harmony, and the undisturbed contentment of bliss.

When the human organism is discharging its negative experience efficiently, the mind is empty of past or future concerns; there is no worry, anticipation, or regret. This means that the mind is left open to Being, the simplest state of awareness.

As intuition grows, the need to make problems and see complications starts to dwindle.

When we decide to take back our own power, we discover that the true solver of problems is intuition, not reason.

If you're studying for an exam you're not thinking about the results. If you're always worried about the results, you can't study a lot. So to be engaged and detached from the outcome is excellent. Excellence is behavior. I mean, isn't that what martial arts is about? And that's what meditation is about, that's what, in many ways, sports are about.

The 7 Principles for Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desires 1. You are a ripple in the fabric of the cosmos 2. Through the mirror of relationships you discover your nonlocal self 3. Master your inner dialogue 4. Your intent weaves the tapestry of the universe 5. Harness your emotional turbulence 6. Celebrate the dance of the cosmos 7. Access the conspiracy of improbabilities Living synchrodestiny & spontaneous fulfillment of desires...

Today is a good day for war to end.

Religion is believing someone else's experience, spirituality is having your own experience.

Look at the world as a reflection of your inner state.

The highest intention comes from love and compassion ... when our intentions come from a place of love and compassion then we have the power of the universe.

Fear is the anticipation of the pain in the future. Anger is the remembrance of pain in the past. Hostility is wanting to get even.

Love is like water. If it doesn't flow, it stagnates.

Your brain is always eavesdropping on your thoughts. As it listens, it leans. If you teach it about limitation, your brain will become limited...Teach your brain to be unlimited.

When I make the effort to pay attention to the sights, sounds and sensations around me, I’m encouraging myself to live in the present moment.

Impermanence is not something to be afraid of. It's the evolution, a never-ending horizon.

You can't have ego and gratitude at the same time.

The trees are our lungs, the rivers our circulation, the air our breath, and the earth our body.

Life is about fulfillment. If your life isn't fulfilled, your stomach can never supply what's missing.

Today I will gratefully receive all the gifts that life has to offer me. I will receive the gifts of sunlight and the sound of birds singing and spring showers. I will also be open to receiving from others, whether it is in the form of a material gift, a compliment or a prayer.

The beginning of suffering is often a refusal to look at the situation as it really is.

Slip into the gap, have the desire, detach from the outcome, and let the universe take care of the details.

When we find our core certainty within, then we no longer look for certainty outside. The unfathomable nature of the ever-changing world ceases to be a source of anxiety and instead is a source of joy and adventure.

Reality isn't a vast, fixed scheme trapping you without choice. At any moment you have the choice to break out of what is really trapping you-your automatic reactions dredged up from the past.

When we harness the natural force of harmony, joy, and love, we create success and good fortune with effortless ease.

The only thing that matters is the choice you are making now--this very instant.

When you begin to meditate on a regular basis, you will start to notice that thoughts and feelings that may have been building up inside of you are gently released and you reach the quiet place that was always there, waiting for you- the place of pure awareness. It is there that you will experience peace, healing, and true rejuvenation.

In every failure is the seed of success... Our failures are stepping stones in the mechanics of creation, bringing us even closer to our goals. In reality, there is no such thing as failure. What we call failure is just a mechanism through which we can learn to do things right.

Every cell in your body is totally aware of how you think and feel about yourself.

At the level of spirit, everything is always unfolding perfectly, and you don’t have to struggle or force situations to go your way. It is only your ego mind that is fearful. When you surrender to spirit and listen to the voice of your deeper intelligence, you free yourself from fear and release the obstacles your ego has created.

It helps if you remember that everyone is doing their best from their level of consciousness.

The Sanskrit word namaste means 'The spirit in me honors the spirit in you.' Whenever you first make eye contact with another person, say 'Namaste' silently to yourself. This is a way of acknowledging that the being there is the same as the being here.

In every moment you have the choice to be a victim or a creator.

We're all inseparably part of each other. We all coexist in each other.

Unbounded awareness is the reservoir of possibilities.

The secret to a happy life is to recognize that no matter what the situation, there's a creative opportunity in it...find meaning and purpose in your life to make a contribution.

If you had only truth, goodness, and harmony on your side, and the complete absence of the other, there would be no creative impulse.

Relationships that begin in passion's raging fire often end in the coldest ashes.

Addiction is when you can't get enough of what you don't want any more.

I think seriousness is a mask of self-importance and self-importance in turn is a mask for self-pity. So if you're really going to pursue a spiritual way of living in the world, you must be lighthearted and carefree, have humor, be able to tolerate ambiguity and embrace uncertainty, and be forgiving of yourself and everybody else.

This moment is as it should be.

It is your understanding that is going to change your reality.

DNA is a quantum computer that localizes a non local omnipresent consciousness or spirit into space time energy information and matter.

Commit yourself to deeper awareness. Be generous of spirit. Embrace every day as a new world. Let the timeless be in charge of time.

The way we metabolize our experience of time influences our biological clock.

The scenery is time bound but the seer is timeless. You are the timeless seer in the midst of time bound scenery.

All thinking, knowing, perception, space-time, occur in consciousness. You are a non-local consciousness. The world is in you.

The physical body is conceived and constructed in consciousness as are time and space. All happens within our self.

Space and time are "sensed" not seen. They are created in consciousness which is spaceless and timeless.

In order to be not bound by the tether of time, we must have a relationship with the timeless.

Our body is the place that our memories and dreams call home for the time being.

Time is an experience in consciousness. It is metabolized as our biological clock. Changing our experience of time can reverse aging.

Begin to see yourself in all other beings.

The more intimately you come in contact with your own Being, the simpler things look and the easier they are to deal with.

Any decrease of anxiety is a step toward love.

An intimate relationship is one that allows you to be yourself.

A quiet mind is more important than a positive mind.

The inner experience of meditation can be had without any kind of forced discipline. The outer trappings - how one sits, breathes, dresses, and so forth - are irrelevant.

I'm not my thoughts, I'm the thinker who has those thoughts.

Once you master how your own consciousness operates, anything can be desired and achieved.

We exist in order to actualize the deepest desires of our hearts.

By becoming self-aware, you gain ownership of reality; in becoming real, you become the master of both inner and outer life.

If you look at all the notions we accept about who we are, you find that they are all based upon our perceptual experiences.

It is only because you take your mind to be yourself, and make it dwell on what you are not, that you lose your sense of well-being.

Most of us have no idea what we can do because we are totally conditioned by the past. Our memories, beliefs, assumptions, prejudices, and stresses conspire to trap us in one boundary after another. We need to escape from this.

Most people have a time-bound awareness. And the reason is they have sacrificed their self for their self-image.

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