56 Deepak Chopra Quotes That Will Revolutionize The Way You See The World

56 quotes

"Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it.

“I think the highest forgiveness is to accept that creation is thoroughly tangled, with every possible quality given outlet for expression. People need to accept once and for all that there is only one life and each of us is free to shape it through the choices we make. Seeking can’t get anyone out o…”

— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com

“The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.”

— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com

“If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another. The universe has no fixed agenda. Once you make any decision, it works around that decision. There is no right or wrong, only a series…”

— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com

“You become the victim of the past, and your tormentor today is your self left over from yesterday.”

— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com

Tagged: The Past, The Present, The future, forgiveness, Self-Forgiveness

“What does responsibility mean? Responsibility means not blaming anyone or anything for your situation, including yourself. Having accepted this circumstance, this event, this problem, responsibility then means the ability to have a creative response to the situation as it is now.”

— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com

Tagged: Blame, Guilt, Problems, Accepting Responsibility, Awareness

“Contrary to some of our great myths, the universe was not created once upon a time, but rather is constantly being created and re-created.”

— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com

Tagged: Universe, Reality, Change, Creation, Perception

“Completely desist from defending your point of view. When you have no point to defend, you do not allow the birth of an argument.”

— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com

Tagged: Point of View, Arguing, Open-Mindedness

“Attachment to money will always create insecurity no matter how much money you have.”

— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com

Tagged: Money, Attachment, Materialism, Happiness, Insecurity

“Love is not a sentiment or an emotion. It's the fact that we're all the same being in different disguises.”

— Deepak Chopra, huffingtonpost.com

Tagged: Love, Emotion, Oneness, Unity, Mankind

“What I want to propose to you is that it is possible to achieve the freedom to have any viewpoint you choose and therefore any reality.”

— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com

Tagged: Freedom, Reality, Perception

“At the moment you consciously make a choice, pay attention to your body and ask your body, ‘If I make this choice, what happens?’ If your body sends a message of comfort, that’s the right choice. If your body sends a message of discomfort, then it’s not the appropriate choice.”

— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com

Tagged: Choices, Decisions, Making Decisions, Reacting To Decisions

“The boundaries we erect to divide heaven from earth, mind from matter, real from unreal are mere conveniences. Having made the boundaries, we can unmake them just as easily.”

— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com

Tagged: Reality, Perception, Life, Religion, Afterlife

“One of the unique things about the human brain is that it can do only what it thinks it can do.”

— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com

Tagged: Brain, minds, Consciousness, Will Power, Self-Direction

“Replace fear-based thinking with love-based thinking. Every time you're making a choice, ask yourself if it's going to cultivate the experience of unity and love or the experience of separation and stress.”

— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Fear, Stress, Anxiety, Unity

“When you feel frustrated or upset by a person or a situation, remember that you are not reacting to the person or the situation, but to your feelings about the person or the situation. These are your feelings, and your feelings are not someone else’s fault.”

— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com

Tagged: Emotion, Desire, Projection, Blame, Frustration

“Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never even have imagined. The coincidences or little miracles that happen every day of your life are hints that the universe has much bigger plans for you than you ever dreamed of for yours…”

— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Chance, Destiny, Fate, Coincidences

“The world is more than the sum of its suffering.”

— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, The World, Suffering, Pain, Resilience

“The world 'out there' won't change until the world 'in here' does.”

— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com

Tagged: Self-Concept, Reality, Creating Change, Change

“Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day.”

— Deepak Chopra, books.google.com

Tagged: meditation, Peace, Thoughts, Thinking, Quiet

“Every great change is preceded by chaos.”

— Deepak Chopra, deepakchopra.com

Tagged: Change, Chaos, Self-Direction, Accepting Change

“Within every desire is the mechanics of its fulfillment.”

— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com

Tagged: Desire, Lust, Fulfillment, Self-Direction

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

— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com

Tagged: Pain, Change, Making Change, Choices, Decisions

“My body is a projection of my consciousness.”

— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com

Tagged: Healing, Health, Wellness, Consciousness, Body

“"A person desperately searching for love," Merlin said, "reminds me of a fish desperately searching for water."”

— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Relationships, The Human Condition

“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.”

— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com

Tagged: Happiness, Joy, Letting Go, Materialism, Attachment

“We're not human beings that have occasional spiritual experiences, we're spiritual beings that have occasional human experiences.”

— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com

Tagged: humans, Spirituality, Human Condition, Reality

“The healthiest response to life is joy.”

— Deepak Chopra, amazon.ca

Tagged: Joy, Life, Happiness, Living, Embracing Life

“If we are creating ourselves all the time, then it is never too late to begin creating the bodies we want instead of the ones we mistakenly assume we are stuck with.”

— Deepak Chopra, amazon.ca

Tagged: Health, Bodies, Autonomy

“When you dig a well, there's no sign of water until you reach it, only rocks and dirt to move out of the way.”

— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com

Tagged: Perseverence, strength, Goals, Moving Forward, Determination

“To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.”

— Deepak Chopra, books.google.com

Tagged: Decisions, Choices, Solitude, Reflection, Self-Direction