Deepak Chopra Quotes

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

When I go out to direct a film, every day we prepare too much, we think too much. Knowledge becomes a weight upon wisdom. You know, simple words lost in the quicksand of experience.

You've outlined the problem very well. Solutions are much more difficult to come by.

It's important not to think too much about what you do.

Don't over think too much.

When we decide to take back our own power, we discover that the true solver of problems is intuition, not reason.

Sometimes it's easier to understand things than it is to figure them out

My goal is to simplify complexity.

We must rely less on spreadsheets and funding formulas and more on common sense.

There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right.

People like definite decisions, / Tidy answers, all the little ravelings / Snipped off, the lint removed, they / Hop happily among their roughs / Calling what they can't clutch insanity / Or saintliness.

The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view

How many situations can be resolved with less thinking?

What intrigues us as a problem, and what will satisfy us as a solution, will depend upon the line we draw between what is already clear and what needs to be clarified.

Throughout history, one of the biggest problems is that the correct course of action is not always obvious, and the obvious course of action is not always correct.

Truth is a hard master, and costly to serve, but it simplifies all problems.

If sophisticated calculations are needed to justify an action, don't do it.

Often, even if I'm struggling with a decision or something, if I just go out into the ocean, that answer will come without thinking about it too much.

The reality is that there is an enormous value to gut-check instinctive decision-making in the world that is not hampered by reams and reams of research and complexity.

Once a problem is solved, its simplicity is amazing.

I never think of things rationally or intellectually. I swear, every single decision I make is just instinct and my instincts tend to be accurate.

Pooh hasn't much Brain, but he never comes to any harm. He does silly things and they turn out right. There's Owl. Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things. He would know the Right Thing to Do when Surrounded by Water. There's Rabbit. He hasn't Learnt in Books, but he can always Think of a Clever Plan. There's Kanga. She isn't Clever, Kanga isn't, but she would be so anxious about Roo that she would do a Good Thing to Do without thinking about it. And then there's Eeyore. And Eeyore is so miserable anyhow that he wouldn't mind about this.

The more you have to talk yourself into it, the more it’s not ‘it’.

I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.

Your heart is uncomplicated. It knows what it knows and acts accordingly. Greater wisdom is hard to find.