Quotes by Deepak Chopra
“A child in India grows up with the idea that you have to make choices that will create a better future. In fact, your whole life is a continuum of choices, so the more conscious you are, the greater your life will be.”
“A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness.”
“A risk-free life is far from being a healthy life.”
“All of us are living with dogmas that we accept as truths. When one of these is overturned, there’s an initial gasp, soon followed by a rush of exhilaration.”
“All religions develop, become exclusive, become divisive and quarrelsome.”
“Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.”
“Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it’s realistic or not.”
“And for me anyway, consciousness is three components: a personal component which for lack of a better word we can call the soul. A collective component which is more archetypal and a deeper level, and then a universal domain of consciousness.”
“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.”
“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.”