Deepak Chopra quotes

“There is just no getting around that turning bad things into good things is up to you.”

— Deepak Chopra

“Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you're flexible, when you're spontaneous, when you're detached, when you're easy on yourself and easy on others.”

— Deepak Chopra

“A risk-free life is far from being a healthy life.”

— Deepak Chopra

“Passivity is the same as defending injustice.”

— Deepak Chopra

“We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster.”

— Deepak Chopra

“It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.”

— Deepak Chopra

“The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.”

— Deepak Chopra

“Self-awareness is value-free. It isn't scary. It doesn't imply that you will subject yourself to needless pain.”

— Deepak Chopra

“Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.”

— Deepak Chopra

“Victims always feel alone and helpless.”

— Deepak Chopra

“Yes, in all my research, the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion.”

— Deepak Chopra

“You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.”

— Deepak Chopra

“A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness.”

— Deepak Chopra

“All religions develop, become exclusive, become divisive and quarrelsome.”

— Deepak Chopra

“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.”

— Deepak Chopra

“We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.”

— Deepak Chopra

“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.”

— Deepak Chopra

“I grew up with a lot of Muslim friends, and the whole idea of revelation has been a lifelong interest of mine.”

— Deepak Chopra

“Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered.”

— Deepak Chopra

“Muhammad is more human, more self-doubting, even self-tortured at times. His story is full of adventure, intrigue, betrayal.”

— Deepak Chopra

“Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.”

— Deepak Chopra

“Well-being changes as we move through life, which is why a child's version of it cannot be the same as an old person's.”

— Deepak Chopra

“Consciousness conceives, governs, constructs, and becomes the activity of the body.”

— Deepak Chopra

“I've always felt that technology can be used to our benefit and should be used to our benefit.”

— Deepak Chopra

“I, of course, meditate for two hours every morning. It's part of my schedule; I wake up at 4 a.m. every day and I love it.”

— Deepak Chopra

“In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.”

— Deepak Chopra

“Preventive medicine isn't part of a physician's everyday routine, which is spent dispensing drugs and performing surgery.”

— Deepak Chopra

“The fear of death comes from limited awareness.”

— Deepak Chopra

“Your immune cells are like a circulating nervous system. Your nervous system in fact is a circulating nervous system. It thinks. It's conscious.”

— Deepak Chopra

“I like Muhammad a lot, because he's like us more than anybody else. Jesus is just so exalted, and Buddha is just so exalted, it's almost beyond our reach.”

— Deepak Chopra