Deepak Chopra Quotes

People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are.

Reality is irrelevant; Perception is everything.

You can't be conscious unless you have variable receptors... When people say the way I see the world is the way it is - that's ridiculous. We can only see it depending on the quality of our receptors and background.

Perception is reality.

Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We're all limited by our perspective.

There are many levels of truth.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.

Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.

We never stop to consider that our beliefs are only a relative truth that's always going to be distorted by all the knowledge we have stored in our memory.

The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.

Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.

You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.

I'm less interested in reality. I'm more interested in perception, the truth of the universe that we see.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

Our capacity for belief is so plastic, we can convince ourselves of anything. Believing is seeing.

What a man sees depends on what he looks at and what his previous experience has taught him to see.

The truth is what you say it is, and that’s not a good place to be.

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

Belief and seeing: They are both often wrong.

The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth.

Truth is, in fact, an elusive concept. It depends almost entirely on where you are standing at the time. It is a human instinct to confuse belief with truth.

I write from what I take to be the realist's point of view, looking at life as it really is - or the way I see it to be.

What you see is not what others see. We inhabit parallel worlds of perception, bounded by our interests and experience. What is obvious to some is invisible to others.

Experience alone can decide on truth.