Deepak Chopra (b.1946) is an Indian-American author, holistic health/New Age guru, and alternative medicine practitioner. Chopra began a mainstream medical career in hospitals and universities in the Northeastern United States, becoming Chief of Staff at the New England Memorial Hospital. In 1985, Chopra met Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who invited him to study Ayurveda. Chopra left his position at the NEMH and became the founding president of the American Association of Ayurvedic Medicine, and was later named medical director of the Maharishi Ayurveda Health Center.
Source: Wikipedia (via CC-BY-SA license) • READ: Works by Deepak Chopra
There is no way to transform the world other than transforming yourself.
—Deepak Chopra
My favorite: Spirituality is a domain of awareness.
—Deepak Chopra
Topics: One liners, Spirituality
Just as light brightens darkness, discovering inner fulfillment can eliminate any disorder or discomfort. This is truly the key to creating balance and harmony in everything you do.
—Deepak Chopra
Topics: Harmony, Balance
We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other. To meet, to love, to share. It 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 this moment will have been worthwhile.
—Deepak Chopra
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.
—Deepak Chopra
If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It’s very important to be aware of them every time they come up.
—Deepak Chopra
Topics: Confidence, Self-talk
Giving up being right is one of the keys to happiness.
—Deepak Chopra
To think is to practice brain chemistry.
—Deepak Chopra
Topics: Thoughts, Thinking, Thought
Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.
—Deepak Chopra
Topics: Thinking, Behavior, Anticipation
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.
—Deepak Chopra
Topics: Age, Aging
The worst thing that someone can say about you contains some truth about them.
—Deepak Chopra
You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.
—Deepak Chopra
Topics: Age, Aging
There is no holy life. There is no war between good and evil. There is no sin and no redemption. None of these things matter to the real you. But they all matter hugely to the false you, the one who believes in the separate self. You have tried to take your separate self, with all its loneliness and anxiety and pride, to the door of enlightenment. But it will never go through, because it is a ghost.
—Deepak Chopra
Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.
—Deepak Chopra
Surrender is faith that the power of love can accomplish anything… even when you can not foresee the outcome.
—Deepak Chopra
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.
—Deepak Chopra
Topics: Identity, Attitude, Perception
If you had all the money and all the time in the world, what would you do?!!?
—Deepak Chopra
Miracles happen every day. Not just in remote country villages or at holy sites halfway across the globe, but here, in our own lives.
—Deepak Chopra
Topics: Miracles
The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.
—Deepak Chopra
Topics: Aging, Age
Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.
—Deepak Chopra
Topics: Reality
There is one thing you can do, and one way of doing it, that is better than anyone else on this entire planet.
—Deepak Chopra
Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It’s a way of entering into the quiet that’s already there—buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day
—Deepak Chopra
Topics: Meditation
Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, “Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.”
—Deepak Chopra
Topics: Silence
There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.
—Deepak Chopra
Topics: Universe
Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
—Deepak Chopra
Topics: Happiness
We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.
—Deepak Chopra
Topics: Dying, Death
the universe operates through dynamic exchange… giving and receiving are different aspects of the flow of energy in the universe. and in our willingness to give that which we seek, we keep the abundance of the universe circulating in our lives.
—Deepak Chopra
Topics: Abundance
Aging is much more of a choice than people ever dream.
—Deepak Chopra
This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.
—Deepak Chopra
Topics: Genius
The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal.
—Deepak Chopra
Topics: Spirit, Spirituality
Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.
—Deepak Chopra
Through synchrodestiny, you can finally become the person the universe intended you to be—as powerful as desire, as creative as spirit. All it takes is an eagerness to join the cosmic dance, and a willingness to seek the miracles of the soul.
—Deepak Chopra
The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.
—Deepak Chopra
Topics: Control, World
In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
—Deepak Chopra
Topics: General, Self-Control
The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.
—Deepak Chopra
You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.
—Deepak Chopra
Topics: Choices, Existence, Choice
It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.
—Deepak Chopra
Topics: Babies
I am totally independent of the good or bad opinion of others.
—Deepak Chopra
Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.
—Deepak Chopra
Topics: Birth
Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging.
—Deepak Chopra
Topics: Kindness
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
Anthony de Mello Indian-born American Theologian
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Indian-born American Novelist
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. American Physician, Essayist
Edward de Bono British Psychologist, Writer
Julien Offray de La Mettrie French Physician
William Osler Canadian Physician
Viktor Frankl Austrian Psychiatrist
Georges Clemenceau French Head of State
Wilhelm Stekel Austrian Physician
Bernie S. Siegel American Physician, Writer