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Deepak Chopra quotes (page 56 of 73)
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"Trust that you are connected to your being, which knows what to do at all times."
"We have the power to make reality. Why make it inside boundaries, when the boundless is so near?"
"I am not in the world. The world is in me."
"The more your mind is restful, the more you're capable of dynamic activity."
"The best way to motivate other people to help YOU fulfil your goals is to help them fulfil THEIR goals"
"For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it's a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself."
"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."
"There are very few good examples of effective, nurturing leadership that unlocks people's potential or even enthusiasm."
"Consciousness is nothing but awareness the composite of all the thing we pay attention to."
"Vegetarianism is a healthier diet."
"In the tangled hierarchy sinner and saint, divine and diabolical, sacred and profane are different faces of our collective Being. Therefore angry activism driven by rage, however justified it seems, is really not going to work. I believe that the tangled hierarchy wants us to move to the next state of evolution and very strongly desires us to take that quantum leap of creativity."
"Love is a way of living, and not something that you give."
"When the material, psychological and spiritual dimensions are brought into balance, life becomes whole, and this union brings feelings of comfort and security."
"Life is set up to bring you every needed situation in its own right time."
"To love a person is to love their universe."
"Skeptics squat by the road like guardians of truth, letting no one pass who doesn't come up to scratch. They never realize that they can see only what their paradigm tells them to look for. If you judge a person only by how well he plays pool, Mozart won't pass scrutiny, but the fault is in your lens."
"Pursue excellence; ignore success."
"Awakening is not changing who you are, but discarding who you are not."
"Use memories. Don't let memories use you."