Deepak Chopra Quotes
...religion is a tool to bind people together, to strengthen their unity, but like every tool, it can be mismanaged, even used in opposition to the way it should.
Chopra, Deepak. How to Know God: The Soul's Journey into the Mystery of Mysteries. Harmony Books, 2000.
Explaining his practice of not engaging in public debate over historical policies and disagreements that occurred when he was in office:
In Egypt and other Arab nations religion is the major source of intolerance. Many Muslims are intolerant of the existence and practice of any other religion. (Unlike in other Islamic nations like Turkey or Indonesia). The Sunni Muslims are at odds with the Shiites. Within those the ultra orthodox fight the more secular Muslims.
This is a remarkable quotation. Here was a leading minister of the Established Church of England who is arguing that there should be no established church insofar as religious belief is concerned. Essentially this is what England has developed. The Anglican Church is still the established church but only for purposes of state cerimonies and the religion of the Royal Family. The establishment has nothing to do with lawmaking, or common religious belief or inhibition of the many other religions in England and there is complete freedom of conscience.
Deepak Chopra is an Indian-American author and alternative medicine advocate. A prominent figure in the New Age movement, his books and videos have made him one of the best-known and wealthiest figures in alternative medicine. His discussions of quantum healing have been characterised as technobabble - "incoherent babbling strewn with scientific terms" which drives those who actually understand physics "crazy" and as "redefining Wrong".