Deepak Chopra Quotes

Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery

Self-awareness is probably overrated. A complex, self-regulating system doesn't need it in order to be successful, or even smart.

One of the keys to harnessing this potentially unlimited power of the mind is to expand your level of self-awareness.

Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and tendencies.

I think I tend to live in sort of a meta state of existence where I'm always analyzing and analyzing whatever I'm going through at any given moment, and a lot of times I'll reflect back on and go, 'Oh look at that - if I acted this way when that happened, I might not have thought of that that way.'

Self-awareness is something that we actually actively avoid.

There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.

Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.

It takes an honest look to observe our selves without judgment, and then to do something about it. Observing without judgment is the practice of yoga. Doing something about it is the stuff that makes up your life.

I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it.

I've always been a very self-aware person.

I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange.

Most of us don't spend any time knowing ourselves. We just keep reacting.

Especially since I started studying acting, I feel like I'm always super-aware of my emotions and my feelings and what's going on with me at every moment. I definitely think I wasn't very present prior to that.

Spend time in your head and figure yourself out. Start taking note of all the things you do that you don't like, and then you're more conscious of it, and you learn.

I like the state of being self-aware, it's interesting when you start to look at your own habits.

The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.

Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter.

We have to try to cure our faults by attention and not by will.

The more that we self-analyze ourselves, the nicer we are to people and to ourselves, and the more we understand each other.

Millions of people never analyze themselves. Mentally they are mechanical products of the factory of their environment, preoccupied with breakfast, lunch, and dinner, working and sleeping, and going here and there to be entertained. They don't know what or why they are seeking, nor why they never realize complete happiness and lasting satisfaction. By evading self-analysis, people go on being robots, conditioned by their environment. True self-analysis is the greatest art of progress.

A fearful man who knows he is fearful is far more trustable than a fearful man who isn’t aware of his fear.

Education best serves students by helping them be more self-reflective.

A leader is a person who must take special responsibility for what's going on inside of himself or herself ... lest the act of leadership create more harm than good.

For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong.