Deepak Chopra Quotes

I'm definitely one of those people who think that everything you do leads up to the moment where you are now.

Past, present, and future is where I'm at.

You do not take from this universe. It grants you what it will.

The ground submits to the sky and suffers whatever comes. Tell me, is the Earth worse for giving in like that?

I have learned to accept that, in the present moment at least, things are exactly as they are meant to be, and although I cannot control the future any more than I could control the wind and the weather, I can manage it and influence it in a positive way.

We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.

Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.

The Past, the Future, O dear, is from you; you should regard both these as one.

I know already that I will return to this day whenever I want to. I can bid it alive. Preserve it. There is a still point where the present, the now, winds around itself, and nothing is tangled. The river is not where it begins or ends, but right in the middle point, anchored by what has happened and what is to arrive.

The whole contains nothing that is not for its advantage. By remembering that I am part of such a whole, I shall be content with everything that happens.

Existence is only in the present. Mind is never in the present. In fact, the moment you are in the present, there is no mind in you, there is great silence. The whole sky of your inner being is without thoughts, without clouds. I call this the state of no-mind. Only in this state of no-mind do you meet existence. And that meeting is the ultimate ecstasy. Once you have tasted it, you will never bother about the future.

But dying's part of the wheel, right there next to being born. You can't pick out the pieces you like and leave the rest. Being part of the whole thing, that's the blessing.

And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it.

Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time.

He knows that he must act, but he must allow room for the Universe to act too.

There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be.

Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment. There are many created things in the universe that outlive us, that outlive the sun, even, but I can't think about them. I live with trees.

One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.

This moment is as it should be.

Memory, prophecy, and fantasy— The past, the future, and The dreaming moment between— Are all in one country, Living one immortal day. To know that is Wisdom. To use it is the Art.

More and more I find I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now.

There's no future. There's no past. I live each moment as my last.

I was reminded of the Four Immutable Laws of the Spirit: Whoever is present are the right people. Whenever it begins is the right time. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have happened. And when it's over, it's over.