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50 Powerful Deepak Chopra Quotes That Will Revolutionize Your Thinking

Because we all need the occasional reminder to look at the world around us with new eyes.
Heidi Priebe
July 6, 2016
“If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another. The universe has no fixed agenda. Once you make any decision, it works around that decision.”
— Deepak Chopra, The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life
Tagged: Decisions, Making Decisions, Choices, Life, The Universe, Fate, Destiny
“The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.”
— Deepak Chopra, The Way Of The Wizard: Twenty Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want
Tagged: Creativity, Self-Direction, Self-improvement, Growing Up, Self-Concept
“Pain isn't the truth; it's what you have to get through in order to find the truth.”
— Deepak Chopra, The Return Of Merlin
Tagged: Pain, Truth, Life, Growth, Personal Growth, The Obstacle Is The Way
“The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.”
— Deepak Chopra, The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore
Tagged: Ego, self, Identity, Creativity, Uncertainty, The Unknown
“The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe.”
— Deepak Chopra, Perfect Health: The Complete Mind/Body Guide
Tagged: Attractiveness, beauty, Love, Openness
“There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood.”
— Deepak Chopra, The Return Of Merlin
Tagged: Accidents, Fate, The Universe
“There is no holy life. There is no war between good and evil. There is no sin and no redemption. None of these things matter to the real you. But they all matter hugely to the false you, the one who believes in the separate self. You have tried to take your separate self, with all its loneliness and anxiety and pride, to the door of enlightenment. But it will never go through, because it is a ghost.”
— Deepak Chopra, Buddha: A Story Of Enlightenment
Tagged: Enlightenment, Spirituality, Life, forgiveness, Sin, self, Identity, Ego
“No single decision you ever made has led in a straight line to where you find yourself now. You peeked down some roads and took a few steps before turning back. You followed some roads that came to a dead end and others that got lost at too many intersections. Ultimately, all roads are connected to all other roads.”
— Deepak Chopra, The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life
Tagged: Choices, Decisions, Making Decisions, Dead Ends, Life, Fate, Destiny
“On some dimension or other, every event in life can be causing only one of two things: either it is good for you, or it is bringing up what you need to look at in order to create good for you. Evolution is win-win. Life is self-correcting.”
— Deepak Chopra, The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life
Tagged: Life, Choices, Win-Win, Growth, Personal Growth, Challenges, Change, Overcoming Obstacles
“Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting go of it the moment that the underlying cause is healed. Suffering is pain that we hold on to. It comes from the mind’s mysterious instinct to believe that pain is good, or that it cannot be escaped, or that the person deserves it.’”
— Deepak Chopra, The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life
Tagged: Suffering, Pain, Moving On, forgiveness
“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”
— Deepak ChopraVerified account, Twitter
Tagged: Future, Past, Identity, Reaction, Pain, Choice
“There is a wellspring of life within you where you can go for cleansing and transformation.”
— Deepak Chopra, The Way Of The Wizard: Twenty Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want
Tagged: Life, Transformation, Change, Identity
“Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment.”
— Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams
Tagged: Relationships, Destiny, Fate, People, Attraction
“You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.”
— Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams
Tagged: impossible, Self-Direction, Determination, Perserverance, Change, Trusting Yourself
“When you struggle with your partner, you are struggling with yourself. Every fault you see in them touches a denied weakness in yourself.”
— Deepak Chopra, The Path to Love: Spiritual Strategies for Healing
Tagged: Struggle, Weakness, strength, Relationships, Self-Doubt, Self-Concept, Identity, Ego
“Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it.”
— Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams
Tagged: Holding On, Letting Go, Release
“When you make a choice, you change the future.”
— Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams
Tagged: Choices, Change, The future, Decisions, Self-Direction
“Sex is always about emotions. Good sex is about free emotions; bad sex is about blocked emotions.”
— Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams
Tagged: Sex, Love, Relationships, Emotion, Repression
“If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.”
— Deepak Chopra, The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore
Tagged: Anger, Fear, strength, Emotion, Understanding
“If you focus on success, you’ll have stress. But if you pursue excellence, success will be guaranteed.”
— Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams
Tagged: Success, Achievement, Failure, Stress, excellence, Pride, Work
“People are doing the best that they can from their own level of consciousness.”
— Deepak Chopra, The Path to Love: Spiritual Strategies for Healing
Tagged: Love, People, Conflict, Consciousness
“To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.”
— Deepak Chopra, Deepak Chopra: 49 Breathtaking and Life Altering Lessons from Deepak Chopra
Tagged: Decisions, Choices, Solitude, Reflection, Self-Direction, Fear, Uncertainty, Truth
“When you dig a well, there's no sign of water until you reach it, only rocks and dirt to move out of the way.”
— Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams
Tagged: Perseverence, strength, Goals, Moving Forward, Determination, Growth, Struggle
“If we are creating ourselves all the time, then it is never too late to begin creating the bodies we want instead of the ones we mistakenly assume we are stuck with.”
— Deepak Chopra, Perfect Health: The Complete Mind/Body Guide
Tagged: Health, Bodies, Autonomy
“The healthiest response to life is joy.”
— Deepak Chopra, Why Is God Laughing
Tagged: Joy, Life, Happiness, Living, Embracing Life
“We're not human beings that have occasional spiritual experiences, we're spiritual beings that have occasional human experiences.”
— Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams
Tagged: humans, Spirituality, Human Condition, Reality
“Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.”
— Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams
Tagged: Happiness, Joy, Letting Go, Materialism, Attachment
“The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.”
— Deepak ChopraVerified account, Twitter
Tagged: Suffering, Pain, Love, Openness, Letting People In
“"A person desperately searching for love," Merlin said, "reminds me of a fish desperately searching for water."”
— Deepak Chopra, The Way Of The Wizard: Twenty Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want
Tagged: Love, Relationships, The Human Condition
“My body is a projection of my consciousness.”
— Deepak Chopra, Quantum Healing: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/Body Medicine
Tagged: Healing, Health, Wellness, Consciousness, Body, self, Identity, Image