Quotes by Deepak Chopra

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

— Deepak Chopra

Love

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.

— Deepak Chopra

Wisdom

You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.

— Deepak Chopra

Happiness

The highest levels of performance come to people who are centered, intuitive, creative, and reflective - people who know to see a problem as an opportunity.

— Deepak Chopra

Wisdom

Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that's karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there's karma all over again.

— Deepak Chopra

Wisdom

New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global sharing, healing the environment, sustainable economies, self-determination, social justice, economic empowerment of the poor, love, compassion in action, going beyond religious fundamentalism, going beyond nationalism-extreme nationalism, culture.

— Deepak Chopra

Love

If you want to do really important things in life and big things in life, you can't do anything by yourself. And your best teams are your friends and your siblings.

— Deepak Chopra

Friendship

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

Wisdom

You have to think of your brand as a kind of myth. A myth is a compelling story that is archetypal, if you know the teachings of Carl Jung. It has to have emotional content and all the themes of a great story: mystery, magic, adventure, intrigue, conflicts, contradiction, paradox.

— Deepak Chopra

Wisdom

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.

— Deepak Chopra

Wisdom

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

— Deepak Chopra

Wisdom

Our minds influence the key activity of the brain, which then influences everything; perception, cognition, thoughts and feelings, personal relationships; they're all a projection of you.

— Deepak Chopra

Wisdom

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

— Deepak Chopra

Life

Karma, memory, and desire are just the software of the soul. It's conditioning that the soul undergoes in order to create experience. And it's a cycle. In most people, the cycle is a conditioned response. They do the same things over and over again.

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Wisdom

There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.

— Deepak Chopra

Life

I teach people that no matter what the situation is, no matter how chaotic, no matter how much drama is around you, you can heal by your presence if you just stay within your center.

— Deepak Chopra

Wisdom

Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.

— Deepak Chopra

Success

People need to know that they have all the tools within themselves. Self-awareness, which means awareness of their body, awareness of their mental space, awareness of their relationships - not only with each other, but with life and the ecosystem.

— Deepak Chopra

Life

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

— Deepak Chopra

Wisdom

Karma is only in space time and causality. Your real self resides non-locally.

— Deepak Chopra

Wisdom

Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers.

— Deepak Chopra

Wisdom

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

— Deepak Chopra

Happiness

Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.

— Deepak Chopra

Life

Self-awareness is not just relaxation and not just meditation. It must combine relaxation with activity and dynamism. Technology can aid that.

— Deepak Chopra

Wisdom