Deepak Chopra Quotes

The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight.

Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing, and it's a process. It's often not cool to be the person who puts themselves out there.

I think the goal is always to go deeper within myself, and accept myself on deeper levels and to know myself on deeper levels. Whether or not I look for roles that are going to do that for me, I certainly look for the ways in which the roles I get can do that for me.

Self-knowledge is not the knowledge of a dead self, self-knowledge is the knowledge of the process of the self. It is an alive phenomenon. The self is not a thing, it is an event, it is a process. Never think in terms of things, the self is not there inside you just like a thing waiting in your room. The self is a process: changing, moving, arriving at new altitudes, moving into new planes, going deeper into new depths. Each moment much work is going on and the only way to encounter this self is to encounter it in relationship.

A man may perform astonishing feats and comprehend a vast amount of knowledge, and yet have no understanding of himself. But suffering directs a man to look within. If it succeeds, then there, within him, is the beginning of his learning.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice.

Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need.

Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.

I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a way to know others, to get away from myself.

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can understand my strengths, my weaknesses - I can see where I need to step up a bit.

It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

It's not about finding a home so much as finding yourself.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

I feel there's something about becoming a character that helps people understand themselves.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

The next frontier is not in front of us but inside us.

I feel like my music at least allows me to release the other side of me, a more vulnerable and sensitive side.

I think that when I got to a certain age, it was important to me to sort of analyze my relationship with myself and my past.

I enjoy exploring and finding myself.