Deepak Chopra Quotes

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

Life is rarely about what happened; it's mostly about what we think happened.

Most people see what they want to, or at least what they expect to.

When you follow your thoughts and watch them attach to certain things, it makes certain things real and other things unreal, and you realize that this is all created by your mind.

We say seeing is believing, but actually, we are much better at believing than at seeing. In fact, we are seeing what we believe all the time and occasionally seeing what we can't believe

Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.

Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.

Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.

Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.

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

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

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Reality is mind-made.

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

But Annabeth knew that people saw what they wanted to see. They didn’t need the Mist to warp their perceptions.

Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality.

There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.

Look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.... Without knowing it, we are coloring everything, putting our spin on it all.

We usually see only the things we are looking for- so much so that we sometimes see them where they are not.

The blind see what they want to see.

In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.

Amazing what people make up based on what they choose to see.

Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?

Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.