Deepak Chopra Quotes

The world is chiefly a mental fact. From mind it receives the forms of time and space, the principle of casuality[sic], color, warmth, and beauty. Were there no mind, there would be no world.

Time and space are just projections of your consciousness.

Without consciousness, space and time are nothing.

It seems to me that the real problem is the mind itself and not the problem which the mind has created and tries to solve.

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

Space and time are "sensed" not seen. They are created in consciousness which is spaceless and timeless.

'Tell me one last thing,' said Harry. 'Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?' Dumbledore beamed at him, and his voice sounded loud and strong in Harry's ears even though the bright mist was descending again, obscuring his figure. 'Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean it is not real?'

Life is consciousness.

Consciousness in the individual is that area where the totality of life is located.

How much of what we call 'reality' is actually out there or rather within our own head?

We confuse ourselves with space-time events, when in fact we are the ones who generate these space-time events.

[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.

The problem is we think we exist.

Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.

The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.

On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self.

Life is but thought.

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

I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.

Reality is mind-made.

If I use the word consciousness, in our lab, in our institute, what we mean is the special quality of mind, the special features that exist in the mind, that permit us to know, for example, that we, ourselves, exist, and that things exist around us.

Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.

The mind is the reality. You are what you think.

Your mind makes out the orange by seeing it, hearing it, touching it, smelling it, tasting it and thinking about it but without this mind, you call it, the orange would not be seen or heard or smelled or tasted or even mentally noticed, it's actually, that orange, depending on your mind to exist! Don't you see that? By itself it's a no-thing, it's really mental, it's seen only of your mind. In other words it's empty and awake.

Space is all one space and thought is all one thought, but my mind divides its spaces into spaces into spaces and thoughts into thoughts into thoughts. Like a large condominium. Occasionally I think about the one Space and the one Thought, but usually I don't. Usually I think about my condominium.