Deepak Chopra is an Indian-born American author, public speaker, alternative medicine advocate, and a prominent figure in the New Age movement. Through his books and videos, he has become one of the best-known and wealthiest figures in alternative medicine. Chopra gained a following in 1993 after he was interviewed on The Oprah Winfrey Show about his books. Chopra believes that a person may attain “perfect health”, a condition “that is free from disease, that never feels pain”, and “that cannot age or die”. Seeing the human body as being undergirded by a “quantum mechanical body” composed not of matter but of energy and information, he believes that “human aging is fluid and changeable; it can speed up, slow down, stop for a time, and even reverse itself,” as determined by one’s state of mind. He claims that his practices can also treat chronic disease. The ideas Chopra promotes have been regularly criticized by medical and scientific professionals as pseudoscience.
Some of the best quotes from Deepak Chopra are listed below.
- “A risk-free life is far from being a healthy life.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it’s realistic or not.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Anything the happens in the mental universe leaves tracks in the physical one.” – Deepak Chopra
- “As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you’re going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. You know, the two-year-old dies before the three-year-old shows up, the three-year-old dies before the teenager shows up.” – Deepak Chopra
- “As you embrace the present and become one with it, and merge with it, you will experience a fire, a glow, a sparkle of ecstasy throbbing in every sentient being. As you begin to experience this exultation of spirit in everything that is alive, as you become intimate with it, joy will be born within you, and you will drop the terrible burdens of defensiveness, resentment, and hurtfulness…then you will become lighthearted, carefree, joyous, and free.” – Deepak Chopra
- “At any given time the universe is giving you the best result possible.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Be kind to yourself and others. Come from love every moment you can. Never give up hope. Know that you are loved.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Before a brain can register a thought, a mind must think it… every step of the way is mind over matter… We override our brains all the time.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Being more aware creates responsibility. What does responsibility mean? It means the ability to respond. The more conscious you are in your ability to respond, the more creative you’ll be.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Don’t try to steer the river.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Each of us is here to discover our true Self…that essentially we are spiritual beings who have taken manifestation in physical form…that we’re not human beings that have occasional spiritual experiences…that we’re spiritual beings that have occasional human experiences.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Everyone is acting from his own level of consciousness. This is all we can ask of ourselves or anyone else. However hurtful someone is, he is doing the best he can, given the limits of his consciousness.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Fear is the memory of pain. Addiction is the memory of pleasure. Freedom is beyond both.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Gratitude opens the door to…the power, the wisdom, the creativity of the universe.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. Let go & it will be yours forever.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Human beings are made of body, mind and spirit. Of these, spirit is primary, for it connects us to the source of everything, the eternal field of consciousness.” – Deepak Chopra
- “I dislike the word ‘self-help.’ Self-awareness, yes, but not self-help.” – Deepak Chopra
- “I have all the time in the world. I am in touch with the timeless. I am surrounded by infinity. When I think like that, it doesn’t mean I’m going to miss my train, it just means that I’m not thinking about it right now because I’m speaking to you.” – Deepak Chopra
- “I teach people that no matter what the situation is, no matter how chaotic, no matter how much drama is around you, you can heal by your presence if you just stay within your center.” – Deepak Chopra
- “I’ve worked all my life on the subject of awareness, whether it’s awareness of the body, awareness of the mind, awareness of your emotions, awareness of your relationships, or awareness of your environment. I think the key to transforming your life is to be aware of who you are.” – Deepak Chopra
- “If we are creating ourselves all the time, then it is never too late to begin creating the bodies we want instead of the ones we mistakenly assume we are stuck with.” – Deepak Chopra
- “If we share with caring, lightheartedness, and love, we will create abundance and joy for each other. And then this moment will have been worthwhile.” – Deepak Chopra
- “If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.” – Deepak Chopra
- “If you focus on success, you’ll have stress. But if you pursue excellence, success will be guaranteed.” – Deepak Chopra
- “If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another.” – Deepak Chopra
- “If you shift your awareness to your being, it will be your ticket to freedom.” – Deepak Chopra
- “If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.” – Deepak Chopra
- “If you want to do really important things in life and big things in life, you can’t do anything by yourself. And your best teams are your friends and your siblings.” – Deepak Chopra
- “If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It’s very important to be aware of them every time they come up.” – Deepak Chopra
- “If you’re really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world…you should have faith in yourself.” – Deepak Chopra
- “In a person’s career, well, if you’re process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you’re more likely to be success. I often say ‘pursue excellence, ignore success.’ Success is a by-product of excellence.” – Deepak Chopra
- “In moments of transcendence, when time stands still, your biological clock will stop. The spirit is that domain of our awareness where there is no time.” – Deepak Chopra
- “In my life nothing goes wrong. When things seem to not meet my expectations, I let go of how I think things should be. It’s a matter of not having any attachment to any fixed outcome.” – Deepak Chopra
- “In our imaginations we believe that love is apart from us. Actually there is nothing but love, once we are ready to accept it. When you truly find love, you find yourself.” – Deepak Chopra
- “In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.” – Deepak Chopra
- “In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.” – Deepak Chopra
- “In the process of letting go you will lose many things of the past, but you will find yourself.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Inner silence promotes clarity of mind; It make us value the inner world; It trains us to go inside To the source of peace and inspiration When we are faced with problems and challenges.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Instead of thinking outside the box, get rid of the box.” – Deepak Chopra
- “It takes a little bit of mindfulness and a little bit of attention to others to be a good listener, which helps cultivate emotional nurturing and engagement.” – Deepak Chopra
- “It takes no effort to love. The state has its own innate joy. Questions answer themselves if you are aware enough. Life is safe; flowing with the current of being is the simplest way to live. Resistance never really succeeds. Controlling the flow of life is impossible.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Joy is a return to the deep harmony of body, mind, and spirit that was yours at birth and that can be yours again. That openness to love, that capacity for wholeness with the world around you, is still within you.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Just as light brightens darkness, discovering inner fulfillment can eliminate any disorder or discomfort. This is truly the key to creating balance and harmony in everything you do.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Just by being ourselves we are borne toward a destiny far beyond anything we could imagine. It is enough to know that the being I nourish inside me is the same as the Being that suffuses every atom of the cosmos.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that’s karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there’s karma all over again.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Love doesn’t need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Love is never about possessing but letting go.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Love is the beginning of the journey, its end, and the journey itself.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there – buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Negative emotions are like unwelcomed guests. Just because they show up on our doorsteps doesn’t mean they have a right to stay.” – Deepak Chopra
- “No matter what the situation is….close your eyes and think of all the things you could be grateful for in your life right now.” – Deepak Chopra
- “No solution can ever be found by running in three different directions.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Nothing brings down walls as surely as acceptance.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Once you’re more aware of people’s needs, you can create action plans for others to follow. That way, you’re responsible for your own well-being, too.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Passivity is the same as defending injustice.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Pay attention to that unchanging part of yourself. It is perfect. At the source of life, and only there, one finds peace, harmony, and the undisturbed contentment of bliss.” – Deepak Chopra
- “People need to know that they have all the tools within themselves. Self-awareness, which means awareness of their body, awareness of their mental space, awareness of their relationships – not only with each other, but with life and the ecosystem.” – Deepak Chopra
- “People think meditation is a huge undertaking. Don’t think of it like that.” – Deepak Chopra
- “People who feel loved live longer; have fewer colds, lower blood pressure and lower cancer rates; and have fewer heart attacks.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Relaxation is the prerequisite for that inner expansion that allows a person to express the source of inspiration and joy within.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Sex is always about emotions. Good sex is about free emotions; bad sex is about blocked emotions.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Success comes when people act together; failure tends to happen alone.” – Deepak Chopra
- “The best use of imagination is creativity. The worst use of imagination is anxiety.” – Deepak Chopra
- “The best way to get rid of the pain is to feel the pain. And when you feel the pain and go beyond it, you’ll see there’s a very intense love that is wanting to awaken itself.” – Deepak Chopra
- “The easiest way to get what you want is to help other get what they want.” – Deepak Chopra
- “The Ego, however, is not who you really are. The ego is your self-image; it is your social mask; it is the role you are playing. Your social mask thrives on approval. It wants control, and it is sustained by power, because it lives in fear.” – Deepak Chopra
- “The fear of death comes from limited awareness.” – Deepak Chopra
- “The first spiritual law of success is the law of pure potentiality. This law is based on the fact that we are, in our essential state, pure consciousness. Pure consciousness is pure potentiality; it is the field of all possibilities and infinite creativity. Pure consciousness is our spiritual essence. Being infinite and unbounded, it is also pure joy. Other attributes of consciousness are pure knowledge, infinite silence, perfect balance, invincibility, simplicity, and bliss. This is our essential nature. Our essential nature is one of pure potentiality.” – Deepak Chopra
- “The healthiest response to life is joy.” – Deepak Chopra
- “The highest levels of performance come to people who are centered, intuitive, creative, and reflective – people who know to see a problem as an opportunity.” – Deepak Chopra
- “The intention to live as long as possible isn’t one of the mind’s best intentions, because quantity isn’t the same as quality.” – Deepak Chopra
- “The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.” – Deepak Chopra
- “The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.” – Deepak Chopra
- “The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.” – Deepak Chopra
- “The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.” – Deepak Chopra
- “The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing.” – Deepak Chopra
- “The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe.” – Deepak Chopra
- “The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.” – Deepak Chopra
- “The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor’s badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully.” – Deepak Chopra
- “The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity.” – Deepak Chopra
- “There are no accidents… there is only some purpose that we haven’t yet understood.” – Deepak Chopra
- “There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.” – Deepak Chopra
- “There are receptors to these molecules in your immune system, in your gut and in your heart. So when you say, ‘I have a gut feeling’ or ‘my heart is sad’ or ‘I am bursting with joy,’ you’re not speaking metaphorically. You’re speaking literally.” – Deepak Chopra
- “There is just no getting around that turning bad things into good things is up to you.” – Deepak Chopra
- “There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one’s nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.” – Deepak Chopra
- “There is no holy life. There is no war between good and evil. There is no sin and no redemption. None of these things matter to the real you. But they all matter hugely to the false you, the one who believes in the separate self. You have tried to take your separate self, with all its loneliness and anxiety and pride, to the door of enlightenment. But it will never go through, because it is a ghost.” – Deepak Chopra
- “To acquire true self power you have to feel beneath no one, be immune to criticism and be fearless.” – Deepak Chopra
- “To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.” – Deepak Chopra
- “To think is to practice brain chemistry.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you’re flexible, when you’re spontaneous, when you’re detached, when you’re easy on yourself and easy on others.” – Deepak Chopra
- “We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.” – Deepak Chopra
- “We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Wealth is the progressive realization of worthy goals, the ability to love and have compassion, meaningful and caring relationships.” – Deepak Chopra
- “What would I be afraid of if I didn’t have a past?” – Deepak Chopra
- “Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.” – Deepak Chopra
- “When the human organism is discharging its negative experience efficiently, the mind is empty of past or future concerns; there is no worry, anticipation, or regret. This means that the mind is left open to Being, the simplest state of awareness.” – Deepak Chopra
- “When you evoke fear you set into motion the physiology of stress that accelerates biological ageing. You muse let go of this fear in order to reverse ageing.” – Deepak Chopra
- “When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Why are we here? We exist not to pursue happiness, which is fleeting, or outer accomplishment, which can always be bettered. We are here to nourish the self.” – Deepak Chopra
- “You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks.” – Deepak Chopra
- “You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.” – Deepak Chopra
- “You can free yourself from ageing by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.” – Deepak Chopra
- “You can only give what you have and your relationships will always mirror how you feel about yourself. Are you treating yourself as the precious lovable soul you are? Infinitely worthy? Infinitely subserving? In the words of the Buddha: You can search the entire universe and not find a single being more worthy of love than you.” – Deepak Chopra
- “You can’t make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Your conscious brain cannot multitask. If I’m speaking to you and checking my I-Phone at the same time, I’m doing neither. This is why our society is frazzled; this misconception that we can consciously do more than one thing at a time effectively.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Your immune cells are like a circulating nervous system. Your nervous system in fact is a circulating nervous system. It thinks. It’s conscious.” – Deepak Chopra
