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
Wealth is the progressive realization of worthy goals, the ability to love and have compassion, meaningful and caring relationships. – 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
When I looked at the addictive qualities of video games and how they captivate people’s attention, I decided to try the same technology for enhancing well-being. – Deepak Chopra
Seeking can become stressful when you apply the same laws that you apply in the material world – hard work, exacting plans, driving ambition, and attachment to outcome. – Deepak Chopra
What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning. – Deepak Chopra
If insurance companies paid for lifestyle-management classes, they would save huge sums of money. We need to see that alternative medicine is now mainstream. – Deepak Chopra
We can actually accelerate the process through meditation, through the ability to find stillness through loving actions, through compassion and sharing, through understanding the nature of the creative process in the universe and having a sense of connection to it. So, that’s conscious evolution. – Deepak Chopra
What happens is consciousness operates in mysterious ways. One of those ways is that the old paradigm suddenly starts to die. – Deepak Chopra
Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention. – 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
We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is. – 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
In India, you’re taught that there are certain qualities that make you a divine human being. – Deepak Chopra
We’re living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it’s run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here. – Deepak Chopra
Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together. – Deepak Chopra
We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is luxurious by any measure. – Deepak Chopra
I, of course, meditate for two hours every morning. It’s part of my schedule; I wake up at 4 a.m. every day and I love it. – 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
So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning. – 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
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
I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death? – Deepak Chopra
I grew up with a lot of Muslim friends, and the whole idea of revelation has been a lifelong interest of mine. – Deepak Chopra
You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology. – 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