Deepak Chopra Quotes

Psychoanalysis - and any good therapy - is a method of increasing one's awareness of destiny in order to increase one's experience of freedom.

I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.

There's a purpose for me. And my purpose is to wake people up.

Every life has a destiny... the trick is to discover it before then end of your life. Otherwise, you will have too many regrets.

When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.

I believe life takes us where we need to be.

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

I don't think things happen for a reason, but I think it's perfectly possible to experience life meaningfully.

Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular path... this is what I must do, this is what I've got to have. This is who I am.

A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.

There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love.

There's a destiny for everybody. The world is set up - as foreign as that can be to some people who are very materialistic - but there is a force in this world, once we step into it, that opens doors for us, that gives us a sense of purpose and the greatest life there is, in my view.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

Change makes you find your calling, your legacy, and God's divine plan for your life. Don't run from it.

We are wiser than we know.

Your job is not just to do what your parents say, what your teachers say, what society says, but to figure out what your heart calling is and to be led by that.

As a cell contains a natural intelligence by which it fosters the healthy functioning of the body, I, too, have natural intelligence that fosters the perfect unfolding of my life.

After a few years, I understood that this is what I was meant to do.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

I believe every one of us has a gift, I believe every one of us human beings has a path in this life, and it is up to each of us, through circumstance, through knowledge, through awareness, through luck - and luck does play a huge part - to hopefully achieve that path and walk the path and realize the gift.

I'm not a guy who looks for signs in the universe to tell him things. I believe that if you search hard enough for the answer you already know, you will find it.

I've tried to educate myself in the world and what's beautiful and what has meaning and is lasting. Then I just follow my intuition and see how it fits.

The world shows us what we need at a specific moment in time.

The two most important days in your life are the day your are born and the day you find out why.

You remember our talk about purpose and meaning?" he asked me, the smile disappearing. "Well, I think this might be mine. I think this is what I was meant to do, Georgina.