Deepak Chopra Quotes

Whatever we know without inference is mental.

Consciousness is the foundation of all thinking; and thinking is the foundation of all consciousness.

Consciousness is a singular for which there is no plural.

It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve.

Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche. Consciousness is a precondition of being.

it is in our minds that we live much of our life.

The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.

The forms of my awareness are richer than yours.

We are what we think…With our thoughts we make the world.

The world is not outside you.

It's one thing thinking something and another thing knowing it.

In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.

Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the science of the mind. There is nothing that we know more intimately than conscious experience, but there is nothing that is harder to explain.

There are two distinctive peculiarities by reference to which we characterize the soul (1) local movement and (2) thinking, discriminating, and perceiving. Thinking both speculative and practical is regarded as akin to a form of perceiving; for in the one as well as the other the soul discriminates and is cognizant of something which is.

In my experience, we don't make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn't personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.

I'm the guy who reputedly denies that people experience colors or pains, and thinks that thermostats think — just ask my critics.

If there were nothing but thought in you, you wouldn't even know you are thinking. You would be like a dreamer who doesn't know he is dreaming. When you know you are dreaming, you are awake within the dream.

The full cosmos consists of the physical stuff and consciousness. Take away consciousness and it's only dust; add consciousness and you get things, ideas, and time.

I am strongly convinced that not only too much consciousness but even any consciousness at all is a sickness.

You believe that you live in the world, where in fact the world lives within you.

[L]et my reader who is puzzled by my awkward explanations close his eyes for no more than two minutes, and see if he does not find himself suddenly not a compact human being at all, but only a consciousness on a sea of sound and touch . . .

Your mind makes out the orange by seeing it, hearing it, touching it, smelling it, tasting it and thinking about it but without this mind, you call it, the orange would not be seen or heard or smelled or tasted or even mentally noticed, it's actually, that orange, depending on your mind to exist! Don't you see that? By itself it's a no-thing, it's really mental, it's seen only of your mind. In other words it's empty and awake.