Deepak Chopra Quotes

Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface.

The most important healing - realizing who you are. The healing on the outer level is fine, but it's not the essence of healing.

Without the cross the Discipline of Confession would be merely therapeutic. But it is so much more. It involves an objective [a better word would have been "metaphysical"] change in our relationship with God and a subjective change in us. It is a means of healing and transforming the inner spirit.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds

Spiritual awareness is not only one of the keys to the healing process. Spiritual awareness is the only way that healing can occur.

You think you're being broken but you're really being broken open...and that's where the healing happens, in those broken places...if you'll allow it.

In terms of soul work, we dare not get rid of the pain before we have learned what it has to teach us.

In many cases, a bout with sickness stretches your soul, opens your eyes, and introduces you to a world of unimagined grandeur, possibility and joy.

In the mere observation of yourself, you begin the process of healing and transformation.

You do not need to understand healing to be healed or know anything about blessing to be blessed.

All strong souls first go to hell before they do the healing of the world they came here for. If we are lucky, we return to help those still trapped below.

Healing is the discovery of the Divinity within.

What is it to bring the man out of his sepulchre if you leave him dead? Why lead him into the light if he is still blind? We thank God, that he who forgives our iniquities also heals our diseases.

The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation.

What breaks your heart is part of a divine design to bring change!

It takes suffering to widen the soul.

So many of us start along the spiritual path because we are suffering. But you must realize that for real healing to occur, there must first be deep compassion for yourself, especially the parts of yourself you dislike or consider ugly.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.

...if we expended all our energies solely on taking care of our own needs we would stop growing. In that respect what we call "soul" can be viewed as the surplus energy that can be invested into change and transformation. As such, it is the cutting edge of evolution.

When things fall apart in your life, you feel as if your whole world is crumbling. But actually it’s your fixed identity that’s crumbling. And as Chögyam Trungpa used to tell us, that’s cause for celebration.

AA is no success story in the ordinary sense of the word. It is a story of suffering transmuted, under grace, into spiritual progress.

Please keep in mind the distinction between healing and treatment: treatment originates from outside, whereas healing comes from within.

The things you’re most embarrassed about, most ashamed of, and most reluctant to share are the very tools God can use most powerfully to heal others