Deepak Chopra Quotes

Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.

Imagine a hot tub for the mind. That is what meditation is; it can bathe your mind in relaxing thoughts.

If you take an hour out of your day to meditate, you will progress ten-fold. By staying mentally focused, you can let your worries go.

While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.

Meditation really helps create not only a sense of balance... but serenity and kind of a calm state of mind.

Try a little harder, and meditation comes. You do not feel the body or anything else. When you come out of it after the hour, you have had the most beautiful rest you ever had in your life. That is the only way you ever give rest to your system. Not even the deepest sleep will give you such a rest as that.

When the mind is allowed to relax, inspiration often follows.

Whenever your mind is totally absorbed in whatever activities you are performing, your mind will remain calm and content.

For my mind, I try to reduce stress by finding quiet time and meditating.

Dynamic activity and deep rest of the mind are complementary to each other.

Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It's a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated.

I meditate so I know how to find a peaceful place within to be calm and peaceful.

Smile, smile, smile at your mind as often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce your mind's tearing tension.

I try to sit still for about 15 minutes each morning without making lists or running in overdrive.

I really try to take a step back from the soccer world and going a thousand miles an hour every day. I like to do some sort of either meditation or mental visualization or breathing exercises - something to calm my mind down because a lot of times, it's just going faster than it should.

You find little ways to keep your mind at peace so that you can, at the end of the day, do the most important thing, which is do a good job.

If you have peace of mind, when you meet with problems and difficulties they won’t disturb your inner peace. You’ll be able to employ your human intelligence more effectively. But, if your mental state is disturbed, full of emotion, it is very difficult to cope with problems, because the mind that is full of emotion is biased, unable to see reality. So whatever you do will be unrealistic and naturally fail.

Meditation helps you do less and accomplish more.

It's the nature of the mind to drift away. The mind is like the Pacific Ocean, it waves. And mindfulness has been shown to drop underneath the waves. If you drop underneath the agitation in the mind, into your breath deep enough calmness, gentle undulations.

Happiness is a clear mind. A clear and sane mind knows how to live, how to work, what emails to send, what phone calls to make, and what to do do to create what it wants without fear.

It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work.

Work. Don't Think. Relax.

Meditation is warm-up exercise for the mind, so that you can jog through the rest of the day without getting agitated or spraining your patience.

The inquiry "who am I" turns the mind introvert and makes it calm.

I try to do a lot of yoga and meditation. I think now it's creating things in times of waiting.