Deepak Chopra Quotes

Knowing who you are begins in the mind.

I think and that is all that I am.

Become aware of the silent witness that is observing the unfolding of all the external events of your life. This eternal presence is your true Self.

What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.

You are the imagination of yourself.

Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery

Think... of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood or a yearning toward a future of your own - only be attentive to what is arising within you, and place that above everything you perceive around you. What is happening in your innermost self is worthy of your entire love; somehow you must find a way to work at it.

Be conscious first of thyself within, then think and act.

You have to self-reflect. If you forget who you actually are, then what's the use of even looking in the mirror.

One of the keys to harnessing this potentially unlimited power of the mind is to expand your level of self-awareness.

Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.

Self-awareness is our capacity to stand apart from ourselves and examine our thinking, our motives, our history, our scripts, our actions, and our habits and tendencies.

Knowing what you admire in others is a wonderful mirror into your deepest, as yet unborn, self.

I wondered, as I wondered so often when I was that age, who I was, and what exactly was looking at the face in the mirror. If the face I was looking at wasn't me, and I knew it wasn't, because I would still be me whatever happened to my face, then what was me? And what was watching?

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

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.

Transcendence constitutes selfhood.

The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

Walk slowly; all you can ever come to is yourself.

I caught up on a lot of just domestic normal everyday stuff, and grew up a lot, and went to therapy, and did a lot of contemplating and figuring things out. I needed to just strip everything away and figure out who I am and get to know myself, as cheesy as that sounds.

My goal is to get quieter as I get older.

There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.

I discovered myself!

I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a strong sense of self, but I couldn't say I know myself and sum it up and give it to you in a little package. I don't know myself at all yet.