Deepak Chopra Quotes

The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.

You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.

Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.

When you practice Buddhism, you have to always self-reflect, and you can't avoid your problems. That makes me understand human beings better. I feel that the more I do that in my own life, the more I can see how to play a character.

In order to love your enemies, you must begin by analyzing self.

In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.

Forgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill.

When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater weakness.

We must each achieve greater individual consciousness and self-knowledge, and project mindful kindness toward everything and everyone.

For a practitioner of love and compassion, an enemy is one of the most important teachers. Without an enemy you cannot practice tolerance, and without tolerance you cannot build a sound basis of compassion.

If you've ever watched anything that I do, and you completely give it a chance and take the blinders off, and you'll understand that the underlying theme of everything I've done has been about forgiveness, learning to move on.

When you are annoyed at someone's mistake, immediately look at yourself and reflect how you also fail; for example, in thinking that good equals money, or pleasure, or a bit of fame. By being mindful of this you'll quickly forget your anger, especially if you realize that the person was under stress, and could do little else. And, if you can, find a way to alleviate that stress.

What it taught me was forgiveness. It taught me that when people present themselves in a certain way, there's probably some back story or issue or reason for the way that they are. It's not you. It's them. And a lot of times, its about something that's completely out of their control

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers.

If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others

We must each lead a way of life with self-awareness and compassion, to do as much as we can. Then, whatever happens we will have no regrets.

You invite judgment into your life every time you judge others. To avoid this invitation to negativity, it's best to stop focusing on others' darkness. Instead, pay attention to their strengths. Today, be a horse with blinders. Look at only the good. As you develop this power, you will attract positive forces into your life.

Judging others blocks me from inner peace

I firmly believe that usually, the person who hurt you doesn't realize what they've done or how much it hurt you. So, continue to pray for the person or situation that caused your pain and anger. Ask God to give you understanding about why they did what they did.

Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.

In every moment we make a decision -- whether conscious or unconscious. Will I choose to open my heart, send love, withhold judgment and thus free myself from fear? Or will I close my heart, project fear instead of extending love, judge others, and thus bind myself to fear? The choice is mine and mine alone.

In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change.

I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.