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.”

“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.”

“To think is to practice brain chemistry.”

“You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.”

“The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.”

“The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.”

“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.”

“Victims always feel alone and helpless.”

“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.”

“Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.”

“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.”

“The fear of death comes from limited awareness.”

“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?”

“Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.”

“Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.”

“But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.”

“Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.”

“I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.”

“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.”

“It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.”

“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.”

“Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.”

“The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.”

“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.”