Deepak Chopra Quotes

I wanted to share the experience of how yoga and meditation have transformed my life, how they have enabled me to observe who I am, first in my body, and then emotionally, and on to a kind of spiritual path.

It's only when we are able to see our own behavior that we are able to wake up and start making conscious choices.

Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge.

Whatever is your present experience, you can recognize the spaciousness that allows it to be. You are this spaciousness, this awareness, this love. Deeper love and more spacious awareness is the best lesson you can get from any experience.

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

Your true evolution is not what you do out there. That's secondary. Your true evolution is to do with the arising of awareness in you as you go about your life.

... my life has been dedicated to my growth and evolution as a conscious being. ... becoming more aware of all that was taking place within me and around me; how my inner world affected my outer world and vice versa. I realized that the more awareness I have, the more choice I have in how I create or respond to the circumstances of my life.

Only a deep attention to the whole of our life can bring us the capacity to love well and live freely.

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 believe that I have such a vanilla life. But maybe I come with a different perspective. I'm always trying to improve myself.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.

I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.

You think life is a beautiful thing, and you've got to live accordingly. You've got to magnify all your better feelings and better urges and better conscious ideas, and that's your life's evolvement.

People talk about this 'bucket list': 'I need to go to this country, I need to skydive.' Whereas I need to think as much as I can, to feel as much as I can, to be conscious and observe and understand me and the people around me as much as I can.

Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.

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

A degree of self-awareness is extremely valuable... I hope I have that going forward.

I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.

Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.

I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Psychoanalysis - and any good therapy - is a method of increasing one's awareness of destiny in order to increase one's experience of freedom.

Especially since I started studying acting, I feel like I'm always super-aware of my emotions and my feelings and what's going on with me at every moment. I definitely think I wasn't very present prior to that.

The feeling of self-discovery, for me, is perennial.