Deepak Chopra Quotes

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and greater awareness for self-discovery.

There's a lot of me in it. But the character is more egotistical. I'm also egotistical, but not the way the character is. This guy is successful, he has everything, but his wife has left him. The most important value - love - is missing. What is wrong with this institution called 'marriage'? What is wrong with this institution called 'the pursuit of happiness'?

That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call 'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character.

A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness.

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

From ancient times, the core idea of the soul is the soul is the capacity to integrate different functions into a single being or into a single person. The soul is what holds us all together: what connects our will and our minds and our bodies and connects us to God.

I am Walter, a body, but more important than the body is my spirit.

I mean really wonderful. In teaching. Personal epiphanies. About life. About different perspectives-help with different perspectives that you have. You know what I mean? Relationships to nature. Relationships with the self. With other people. With events.

Everything changes once we identify with being the witness to the story, instead of the actor in it.

We're a feeling, an awareness encased here

You are not a human being. You are not your body, you are not your mind, and you are not your soul. These are things that You have. The You that has these things - indeed, that has given your Self these things - is far bigger than any of them, and even all of them put together.

Consciousness is observing your thoughts and actions so that you can live from true choice in the present moment rather than being run by programming from the past.

This perceiving, active being is what I call mind, spirit, soul, or myself. By which words I do not denote any one of my ideas, but a thing entirely distinct from them, wherein they exist, or, which is the same thing, whereby they are perceived; for the existence of an idea consists in being perceived.

pg 9, "The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is the oldest tax levied on the intelligence.

Whatever we call it - mind, character, soul - we like to think we possess something that is greater than the sum of our neurons and that animates us.

The reality of my life cannot die for I am indestructible consciousness.

The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.

Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist.

I don't take anything personally. I am a secondary character in other people's stories. I know that whatever people say about me is just a projection of their image of me. It has nothing to do with me.

It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.

We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it As though we had written it.

The meaning of life is found in openness to being and "being present" in full awareness.

And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?

The place to begin building any relationship is inside ourselves, inside our circle of influence, our own character.