22 August 2022

Week 2022-34: Deepak Chopra - Collected Quotes

"Don't try to steer the river." (Deepak Chopra)

"Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined." (Deepak Chopra)

"Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future." (Deepak Chopra)

"Expectations determine outcomes. If you expect your mental and physical capacity to diminish with age, it probably will. If you have the expectation that you will grow younger and live longer, this will be your experience." (Deepak Chopra)

"In every act of perception we create the world," (Deepak Chopra)

"In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you." (Deepak Chopra)

"It helps if you remember that everyone is doing their best from their level of consciousness." (Deepak Chopra)

"One way to access the field is through the daily practice of silence, meditation, and non-judgment. Spending time in nature will also give you access to the qualities inherent in the field: infinite creativity, freedom, and bliss." (Deepak Chopra)

"Religion is belief is someone else's experience. Spirituality is having your own experience." (Deepak Chopra)

"Surrender is faith that the power of love can accomplish anything... even when you can not foresee the outcome." (Deepak Chopra)

"The best way to motivate other people to help you fulfill your goals is to help them fulfill their goals." (Deepak Chopra)

"The need for approval, the need to control things, and the need for external power are needs that are based on fear. When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power." (Deepak Chopra)

"The way you think about your body leads to the way you treat it. For people to shift their behavior toward self-care and heightened well-being, we don't need just compliance with standard prevention. There also has to be a drop in our addiction to drugs and surgery as the main approaches of medicine." (Deepak Chopra)

"There are many aspects to success; material wealth is only one component. But success also includes good health, energy and enthusiasm for life, fulfilling relationships, creative freedom, emotional and psychological stability, a sense of well-being, and peace of mind." (Deepak Chopra)

"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)

"Through silence, through meditation, and through non-judgment, you will access the first law, the Law of Pure Potentiality." (Deepak Chopra)

"We have to learn to go beyond both a positive mind and a negative mind to become a silent, nonjudgmental, non-analytical, non-interpretive mind. In other words, the silent witness. In the process of silent witnessing, we experience inner silence. In the purity of silence, we feel connected to our source and to everything else." (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)

"You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible." (Deepak Chopra)

"You must learn to get in touch with the innermost essence of your being. This true essence is beyond the ego. It is fearless; it is free; it is immune to criticism; it does not fear any challenge. It is beneath no one, superior to no one, and full of magic, mystery, and enchantment." (Deepak Chopra)

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