Deepak Chopra Quotes

Not all dying words are true and this blessing is no less real for being shorn of its ground.

Insanity is believing your hallucinations are real. Religion is believing that other peoples' hallucinations are real.

To an experienced Zen Buddhist, asking if one believes in Zen or one believes in the Buddha, sounds a little ludicrous, like asking if one believes in air or water. Similarly Quality is not something you believe in, Quality is something you experience.

Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth.

You do not believe, you only believe that you believe.

Reality is perspective. All you have to do is Believe.

Faith goes beyond reason. It goes beyond what you can see. But it is as real as anything you can touch or feel.

The final belief is to believe in a fiction, which you know to be a fiction, there being nothing else. The exquisite truth is to know that it is a fiction and that you believe in it willingly.

A thing can only live through a pious illusion.

Christianity is not a patent medicine. Christianity claims to give an account of facts - to tell you what the real universe is like. Its account of the universe may be true, or it may not, and once the question is really before you, then your natural inquisitiveness must make you want to know the answer. If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be: if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all.

Faith is simply whatever is real to us.

Illusions only control you when you think they are real.

Fairy's side note: Even people who don't believe in magic really do.

If on the other hand he went to pay his respects to The Door and it wasn't there . . . what then? The answer, of course, was very simple. He had a whole board of circuits for dealing with exactly this problem, in fact this was the very heart of his function. He would continue to believe in it whatever the facts turned out to be, what else was the meaning of Belief? The Door would still be there, even if the Door was not.

We can't believe what we believe to be untrue, and we can't love what we believe to be unreal.

The truth is still the truth whether or not you believe it. Can we say the same about lies? No, lies only exist because we believe them. If we don't believe in lies, they simply disappear.

Ela acreditava em anjo e, porque acreditava, eles existiam": "She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed

Realize all this as illusion, realize that within the illusion is the Real.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

I still marvel at how God turns dreams into reality.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

Let me say that I consider myself a deep believer in the reality of God. I might define God quite differently from the way some people in the Christian faith would do so, but I do not doubt the reality of that experience.

Some things have to be believed to be seen.