Deepak Chopra Quotes

[D]oes the real world have any more substance than visions and hallucinations when we're having them? At any given moment, what's happening in our minds is all and everything that happens.

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

We live in condensations of our imagination

The relationship between the imagined and the real is more complicated than people imagine.

So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.

The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.

All experience is subjective.

Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

All is as thinking makes it so

One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.

There is no matter as such—mind is the matrix of all matter.

The physical universe that you see is all in your mind. When you turn your mind off, or become unconscious, the physical universe, for you, disappears. Then, when you awaken your consciousness, the universe reappears magically. Quite simple really - no thoughts on your part, no physical world. As Walt Whitman succinctly stated: "The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual - namely to You." Without your mind to process it, the universe simply disappears into nothingness.

The world is a construct of our sensations, perceptions, memories. It is convenient to regard it as existing objectively on its own. But it certainly does not become manifest by its mere existence.

The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.

We cannot study the brain, the instrument for fabricating the realities we inhabit, using the mental constructs of the past.

In reality, our mind is the creator of all the things we experience.

We each create our world by what we choose to notice, creating a world of distinction that makes sense to us. We then 'see' the world through the self we have created.

Our consciousness is our contribution to reality. What we perceive as real, becomes real.

Apart from thoughts, there is no independent entity called the world. In deep sleep there are no thoughts, and there is no world. In the states of waking and dream, there are thoughts, and there is a world also. Just as the spider emits the thread (of the web) out of itself and again withdraws it into itself, likewise the mind projects the world out of itself and again resolves it into itself.

The physical body is conceived and constructed in consciousness as are time and space. All happens within our self.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

In every story of solipsism, there is always a conspiracy. Why? Because there is always a background involved in every perception.

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