Deepak Chopra Quotes

The authentic self is the best part of a human being. It's the part of you that already cares, that is already passionate about evolution. When your authentic self miraculously awakens and becomes stronger than your ego, then you will truly begin to make a difference in this world. You will literally enter into a partnership with the creative principle.

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action.

I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

What are you willing to give up, in order to become who you really need to be?

He could see plainly that she was not herself. That is, he could not see that she was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.

The state of self-realization, as we call it, is not attaining something new or reaching some goal which is far away, but simply being that which you always are and which you always have been.

Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.

The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.

Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.

Once you've started down that road to self-discovery, no matter how treacherous the path before you, you can't turn back. The universe doesn't allow it.

Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old.

We need to forget what we think we are, so that we can really become what we are.

We are always pregnant with a truer version of ourselves.

Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.

You are meant to understand the nature of your inner self, and to manifest it outward.

Yoga is existential, experiential, experimental. No belief is required, no faith is needed - only courage to experience. And that's what's lacking. You can believe easily because in belief you are not going to be transformed. Belief is something added to you, something superficial. Your being is not changed; you are not passing through some mutation.

Staring at her face, she began to fancy her outer layer had begun to melt away while she wasn't paying attention, and something -- some new skeleton -- was emerging from beneath the softness of her accustomed self. With a deep, visceral ache, she wished her true form might prove to be a sleek and shining one, like a stiletto blade slicing free of an ungainly sheath. Like a bird of prey losing its hatchling fluff to hunt in cold, magnificent skies. That she might become something glittering, something startling, something dangerous.

When you give yourself away you find that a new and more real self has somehow been given to you.

Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already posses.

The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out all the other selves, which we are constantly putting on and taking off like coats and hats against the world’s weather

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

To me I seem to be constantly growing. I must respond to varying conditions, yet remain changeless within.

The purpose of life is to create your Self anew, in the next grandest version of the greatest vision ever you held about Who You Are. It is to announce and become, express and fulfill, experience and know your true Self.

Become such as you are, having learned what that is.

One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.