Deepak Chopra Quotes

Who am I? is the only question worth asking and the only one never answered. 98% of the atoms in your body were not there a year ago. Seeing yourself with the eyes of love makes it natural to see the Divine Spirit in everyone you meet. When the body is in pain, a distorted area of awareness is crying out to the rest of awareness for help. Spiritual people should not be ashamed of being wealthy. Wall Street is broken for sure because it succumbed to greed and corruption and pure speculation with no values. We are attracted to people who have traits we want in ourselves, and usually we are unattracted to people with traits that we share. Treat every moment as a gift, that is why it is called the present. In religion, the ego manifests as the devil. And of course, no one realizes how smart the ego is because it created the devil so you could blame someone else. We must revisit the idea that science is a methodology and not an ontology. 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? I like Muhammad a lot, because he's like us more than anybody else. Jesus is just so exalted, and Buddha is just so exalted, it's almost beyond our reach. A risk-free life is far from being a healthy life. Speak of love with others. Remind each other of your spiritual purpose When you give, you reveal a spiritual truth, that the flow of life never runs dry. One of the unique things about the human brain is that it can do only what it thinks it can do. The minute you say 'my memory isn't what it used to be' or 'I can't remember a thing today.' You are actually training your brain to live up to your diminished expectations. Love is what we are in our essence, and the more love we feel in our hearts, the more it will be brought to us. Gregg Braden is a rare blend of a scientist, visionary, and scholar, with the ability to speak to our minds, while touching the wisdom of our hearts. Simply with a change of mind, you can change your life. Tidal rhythms have an effect on our physiology.... When we feel out of sorts, our body is out of sync with the body of the Universe. Spending time near the ocean, or anywhere in nature, can help us to synchronize our rhythms with nature's rhythms. When you perceive yourself as spirit, you will not simply feel love - you will BE love. Medicine in the future will give everyone the ability to become their own best healer. When love and spirit are brought together, their power can accomplish anything. Then love, power, and spirit are one. So, when you have that experienced knowledge you lose the ability to hurt people and you also lose the ability to be hurt by people. That's love. Knowledge about God is of two kinds, direct and indirect. Indirectly we can read scriptures, listen to sermons, consult authorities, and from these sources build a reasonable case that God exists. But such a God transmits no love to Earth. Therefore nothing substitutes for gyana, which is direct knowledge of the divine. Instead of having thoughts about God, you share God's own thoughts. Her thoughts can only be about Herself. It's an intelligence. It's not - you know, that's the other mistake we make, is we tend to project how we think of ourselves onto divinity. So divinity being infinite, unbounded, eternal, beyond space and time, is not a he or a she, it's a field of intelligence. Love can heal. Love can renew. Love can make us safe. Love can inspire us with its power. Love can bring us closer to God. 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. I want to offer the possibility that Jesus was truly, as he proclaimed, a savior. Not the savior, not the one and only Son of God. Rather Jesus embodied the highest level of enlightenment. What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.