Deepak Chopra Quotes

Learn to breathe, learn to speak, but first... learn to feel.

Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.

Individuals who were submerged in reality, merely feeling their needs, emerge from reality and perceive the causes of their needs.

Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness.

Attention without feeling is only a report.

I perceive the world through the wide range of emotions that whirl all around in it.

The more we witness our emotional reactions and understand how they work, the easier it is to refrain.

We don't teach kids how to feel, we don't give them the words to go by.

If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.

I really explored self-awareness and emotions through 'Green Lantern.' It might sound goofy, but I do believe that emotions have power. We're all driven by something, and most of that is emotional reaction. For me, it was about recognizing my self-awareness.

Self-hatred is OK. I have self-hatred, too. It's OK. What's bad is if you don't know how to get out of it, don't know how to manage it. Self-hatred is, in fact, a good thing if you can clearly see the mechanism of it, because it helps you to understand others.

I am a really sensitive person.

We think too much and feel too little.

Over the years, I just started paying a lot more attention not to whether I was right or wrong, but just to how I make people feel.

I've always been sensitive and over-emotional.

I respect anybody that is very in tune with their feelings.

I am a very sensitive person.

I am surprisingly very sensitive.

I try and strike a balance between being sensible and sensitive.

Discipline yourself. Be conscious of what you think, and what you like. What gets you mad? What gets you in your feelings? Figure that stuff out and take control of it so nobody else can control you.

To begin your commitment to new perceptions, start by paying attention to attack thoughts toward yourself and others.

Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

People just tell me I'm supposed to be sensitive, and I'm not. But I think I'm very emotional. I'm very caring.

Falling in love with someone doesn’t mean you know any better how they feel. It only means you know how you feel.

Emotional Literacy means being able to recognise what you are feeling, so that it doesn't interfere with thinking. It becomes another dimension to draw upon when making decisions or encountering situations. Emotional expression by contrast can mean being driven by emotions, so that it isn't possible to think. These two things are often confused, because we are still uncomfortable with the idea of the validity of feelings.