Deepak Chopra Quotes

45 quotes

Indian-born American author and alternative-medicine advocate, physician and public speaker

“When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.”

"Once war becomes a clash of absolutes, there is no breathing room for mercy. Absolute truth is blind truth."

on War

"Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dance, even when we can't name the tune."

on Biology

"If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return."

on Fear

"The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world."

on Philosophy

"Each of us is a unique strand in the intricate web of life and here to make a contribution."

on Life

"Without silence, there cannot be any real appreciation in life, which is as delicate in its inner fabric as a closed rosebud."

on Mindfulness

"Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you."

on Happiness

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

on Philosophy

"You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible."

on Imagination

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

on Health

"I was very afraid at the beginning, until Master told me that pain isn't the truth; it's what you have to get through in order to find the truth."

on Fear

"When the pain of being the same becomes greater than the pain of being different, you change."

on Life

"Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity."

on Creativity

"The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life."

on Self Awareness

"Nothing brings down walls as surely as acceptance."

on Wisdom

"The more boundless your vision, the more real you are."

on Inspirational

"If the fate of the universe was decided in a single moment at the instant of the Big Bang , that was the most creative moment of all."

on Creativity

"The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking."

on Faith

"The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity."

on Life

"Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted."

on Happiness