Deepak Chopra Quotes

Cultivating a generous spirit starts with mindfulness. Mindfulness, simply stated, means paying attention to what is actually happening; it's about what is really going on.

The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.

It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is.

There isn't anything except your own life that can be used as ground for your spiritual practice. Spiritual practice is your life, twenty-four hours a day.

Practice moment to moment non-judgemental awareness.

The experience taught me to be present in the real Buddhist sense of paying attention to the moment.

And we can't avoid an inch of our own experience; if we do it causes a blur, a bleep, a puffy unreality. Our job is to wake up to everything, because if we slow down enough, we see that we are everything.

I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds.

We can actually accelerate the process through meditation, through the ability to find stillness through loving actions, through compassion and sharing, through understanding the nature of the creative process in the universe and having a sense of connection to it. So, that's conscious evolution.

It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.

I'm doing my best to be mindful about how I'm living: to be kind and patient, and not to impose a bad mood on somebody else. Being mindful is as good a way to be spiritual as anything else.

Life is all about the spirit.

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

My main hope for myself is to be where I am.

I've worked all my life on the subject of awareness, whether it's awareness of the body, awareness of the mind, awareness of your emotions, awareness of your relationships, or awareness of your environment. I think the key to transforming your life is to be aware of who you are.

I just want to find some inner peace, and I think I'm getting there, slowly but surely.

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

If you have faith, then your whole life is put in a new perspective. You get to work but enjoy the work at the same time. If you grow spiritually, you do what's in front of you and let the results speak for themselves.

What I think is more important than actually believing in reincarnation or thinking about a post-death existence is to live in the present.

Yoga is really all about process, acceptance, and becoming more present, and I really want to show that it can expand off the mat.

What I've learnt is to be in the now. It's something my mum has always said to me, and when I read a book called 'The Power of Now' by Eckhart Tolle, I realised just how important it is.

I was constantly looking for things outside of myself to make me feel good, and I think now that feeling can come from the inside, and that's why I meditate now twice a day.

I'm really into Deepak Chopra and self-help books.