170 Enlightening Quotes By Deepak Chopra on Universe, Consciousness and Spirituality
Last updated on May 2nd, 2024 at 09:22 am
Deepak Chopra, a doctor and self-help guru, boasts a prolific career spanning over 70 books, firmly establishing himself as a promoter for healing and alternative medicine. Born in New Delhi, he honed his medical expertise in India before making his mark in the United States in 1970. Initially practicing as an endocrinologist in Massachusetts, Chopra later became associated with the Transcendental Meditation movement. His journey eventually led him to the West Coast, where he emerged as a spiritual advisor to high-profile personalities such as Michael Jackson.
Through best-selling books and impactful appearances alongside Oprah Winfrey, Chopra has solidified his status as a leading advocate for alternative medicine on a global scale. Discover the boundless wisdom of the universe through these wise quotes by Deepak Chopra on consciousness and spirituality.
Deepak Chopra’s Inspirational Quotes on Consciousness
And I believe that if 100 million people became embodiments of peace, the world would transform, because consciousness is a collective phenomenon. And what we see as good and evil is the balance between forces. – Deepak Chopra
Our consciousness is our contribution to reality. What we perceive as real, becomes real. – Deepak Chopra
The world is a projection of our collective consciousness. If our collective consciousness reaches that place of peace, harmony, laughter and love, it will be a different world. – Deepak Chopra
All thinking, knowing, perception, space-time, occur in consciousness. You are a non-local consciousness. The world is in you. – Deepak Chopra
A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. – Deepak Chopra
Awakening is not changing who you are, but discarding who you are not. – Deepak Chopra
Awareness is the birthplace of possibility. Everything you want to do, everything you want to be, starts here. – Deepak Chopra
Being fully in the present, you experience the timeless. In the timeless, you find your true self. – Deepak Chopra
Being more aware creates responsibility. What does responsibility mean? It means the ability to respond. The more conscious you are in your ability to respond, the more creative you’ll be. – Deepak Chopra
By becoming a conscious choice-maker, you begin to generate actions that are evolutionary for you. – Deepak Chopra
By becoming self-aware, you gain ownership of reality; in becoming real, you become the master of both inner and outer life. – Deepak Chopra
Consciousness conceives, governs, constructs, and becomes the activity of the body. – Deepak Chopra
Differentiation is how ONE becomes many while remaining ONE. Differentiation is not separation. – Deepak Chopra
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. – Deepak Chopra
If we suspend judgment and look to how we can make conscious choices to uplift the situation, we can be sure that we are doing all we can to attract a happier and more harmonious outcome. – Deepak Chopra
In your present-moment awareness, awaken to your innocence, your trust, your love, your eternal being. – Deepak Chopra
Inherent in every intention and desire is the mechanics for its fulfillment. And when we introduce an intention in our pure potentiality, we put this infinite organizing power to work for us. – Deepak Chopra
It helps if you remember that everyone is doing their best from their level of consciousness. – Deepak Chopra
I’ve worked all my life on the subject of awareness, whether it’s awareness of the body, awareness of the mind, awareness of your emotions, awareness of your relationships, or awareness of your environment. I think the key to transforming your life is to be aware of who you are. – Deepak Chopra
Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment. – Deepak Chopra
Mastery of awareness requires that you never take personal offense. – Deepak Chopra
Most of us take for granted that time flies, meaning that it passes too quickly. But in the mindful state, time doesn’t really pass at all. There is only a single instant of time that keeps renewing itself over and over with infinite variety. – Deepak Chopra
My body is a projection of my consciousness. – Deepak Chopra
No matter whether I feels victorious or defeated, elated or discouraged, these are mere phantoms compared to consciousness itself. – Deepak Chopra
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. – Deepak Chopra
Self-awareness is not just relaxation and not just meditation. It must combine relaxation with activity and dynamism. Technology can aid that. – Deepak Chopra
Self-awareness moves us beyond the old, well-worn pathways in the brain that support fixed, unconscious habits. – Deepak Chopra
The more boundless your vision, the more real you are. – Deepak Chopra
The more you expand your awareness, the more naturally you will be present without effort. – Deepak Chopra
The present moment dies every moment to become the past, is reborn every moment into the future. All experience is now. Now never ends. – Deepak Chopra
The whole world opens when we accept this moment, this very moment. – Deepak Chopra
There is nothing more attractive than a person who radiates simple unaffected humanity. – Deepak Chopra
To be in touch with yourself requires great sensitivity to everything that’s going on here and now. – Deepak Chopra
We are ripples of consciousness of the vast ocean of consciousness. If we get agitated and become part of the reactionary and vitriolic behavior sometimes around us, we will only add to the disturbance. – 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
When you allow yourself to be unpredictable, you step from the known into the unknown, where anything is possible. – Deepak Chopra
Accept that living in the present moment, with your present desires, is the best, the highest thing you can do. – Deepak Chopra
Every drop of water in an ocean contains the flavor of the whole ocean. So too, every moment in time contains the flavor of eternity, if you could live in that moment, but most people do not live in the moment which is the only time they really have. – Deepak Chopra
Spirituality Quotes By Deepak Chopra
Remember that you will create peace only when you are peaceful. – Deepak Chopra
You’re a spiritual being having a human experience. You’re not a human being having a spiritual experience. – Deepak Chopra
Spiritual energy – the energy that comes from pure consciousness – is the creative energy of the universe. – Deepak Chopra
The inward journey is about finding your own fullness, something that no one else can take away. – Deepak Chopra
The transformation from separation to unity, from conflict to peace, is the goal of all spiritual traditions. – Deepak Chopra
We are powerful magical beings. – Deepak Chopra
Just as a wave is a movement of the whole ocean, you are the energy of the cosmos. Don’t underestimate your power. – Deepak Chopra
Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real. – Deepak Chopra
Walk with those seeking truth. Run from those who think they’ve found it. – Deepak Chopra
If you say you don’t have time to do it once a day, then you’re the one who probably needs it twice a day. (On Meditation) – Deepak Chopra
Meditation is a vital way to purify and quiet the mind, thus rejuvenating the body. – Deepak Chopra
Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there – buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day. – Deepak Chopra
Meditation makes the entire nervous system go into a field of coherence. – Deepak Chopra
Meditation will change your life for the better, enhance your physical health, improve your sleep, and help you achieve your goals, both material and spiritual. – Deepak Chopra
Christ wasn’t a Christian and Buddha wasn’t a Buddhist and Muhammad wasn’t Muslim. These people were having the experience of unity consciousnesses and universal consciousness and they spoke of it in words. – Deepak Chopra
Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It’s not unique to Christianity. – Deepak Chopra
God is the evolutionary impulse of the universe. God is infinite creativity, infinite love, infinite compassion, infinite caring. – Deepak Chopra
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. – Deepak Chopra
I used to be an atheist until I realized that I was God. – Deepak Chopra
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. – Deepak Chopra
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. – Deepak Chopra
Muhammad is more human, more self-doubting, even self-tortured at times. His story is full of adventure, intrigue, betrayal. – Deepak Chopra
Religion is believing someone else’s experience, spirituality is having your own experience. – Deepak Chopra
Synchronicity is God sending us messages anonymously. – Deepak Chopra
By making a soul connection, your true purpose in life will become the foundation of everything you do. – Deepak Chopra
If you want to reach a state of Bliss – make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved and the need to judge. – Deepak Chopra
Impermanence is not something to be afraid of. It’s the evolution, a never-ending horizon. – Deepak Chopra
Our essential nature is one of pure potentiality. – Deepak Chopra
The world ‘out there’ won’t change until the world ‘in here’ does. – Deepak Chopra
Each of the seven chakras are governed by spiritual laws, principles of consciousness that we can use to cultivate greater harmony, happiness, and wellbeing in our lives and in the world. – Deepak Chopra
Each of us is here to discover our true selves; that essentially we are spiritual beings who have taken manifestation in physical form; that we’re not human beings that have occasional spiritual experiences, that we’re spiritual beings that have occasional human experiences. – Deepak Chopra
Ecstasy carries you completely outside your ego boundaries. In ecstasy you know yourself as cosmic ego, unbounded in time and space. – Deepak Chopra
Ecstasy is the energy of spirit. When life flows, ecstasy is natural. – Deepak Chopra
Either you’re a person wondering if you have a soul, or you’re a soul who knows that being a person isn’t real. – 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
Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born. – Deepak Chopra
Everyone has a spark of divinity inside them. After all, we were created in the image of God. – Deepak Chopra
Everything is the same spirit watching itself through the eyes of different observers. – Deepak Chopra
For nearly a hundred years, we have known that the material world is an illusion. Everything that seems solid – a rock, a tree, your body – is actually 99.999% empty space. – Deepak Chopra
I am beneath or above no one. When I am independent of the good or bad opinion of others, I stand strong in my own divine power. – Deepak Chopra
I am here to serve. I am here to inspire. I am here to love. I am here to live my truth. – Deepak Chopra
I am not in the world. The world is in me. – Deepak Chopra
I feel genius in great works of art. I have seen medical cures that science can’t explain, some seemingly triggered by faith. The same is true of millions of other people. – Deepak Chopra
I was very afraid at the beginning, until Master told me that pain isn’t the truth; it’s what you have to get through in order to find the truth. – Deepak Chopra
If we could learn to live from the level of the soul, we would see that the best most luminous part of ourselves is connected to all the rhythms of the universe. We would truly know ourselves as the miracle-makers we are capable of being. – 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
In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit. – Deepak Chopra
In my stillness I am the eternal possibility. In my movement I am the cosmos. – Deepak Chopra
In order to be not bound by the tether of time, we must have a relationship with the timeless. – Deepak Chopra
In the light of trust, as it develops slowly over time, you will find that you are a privileged child of the universe, entirely safe, entirely supported, entirely loved. – Deepak Chopra
In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself. It will be a permanent Self, rooted in awareness and creativity. Once you have captured this, you have captured the world. – Deepak Chopra
Inner silence promotes clarity of mind; It makes us value the inner world; It trains us to go inside to the source of peace and inspiration when we are faced with problems and challenges. – Deepak Chopra
Just as light brightens darkness, discovering inner fulfillment can eliminate any disorder or discomfort. This is truly the key to creating balance and harmony in everything you do.- Deepak Chopra
Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that’s karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there’s karma all over again.- Deepak Chopra
Karma is only in space time and causality. Your real self resides non-locally.- Deepak Chopra
Karma means your have to live with the consequences of the actions you have taken in the past. Whatever you put out is coming back.- Deepak Chopra
Karma, memory, and desire are just the software of the soul. It’s conditioning that the soul undergoes in order to create experience. And it’s a cycle. In most people, the cycle is a conditioned response. They do the same things over and over again.- Deepak Chopra
Karma, when properly understood, is just the mechanics through which consciousness manifests.- Deepak Chopra
Know that you are a miracle and that you have a unique place in the cosmic plan. You are here to be the presence of love. You are here to be the presence of joy. You are here to be the presence of peace.- Deepak Chopra
Let us realize that engagement and detachment aren’t opposite-the more engaged we become, the more detached we will have to be…- Deepak Chopra
Never forget your real identity. You are a luminous conscious stardust being forged in the crucible of cosmic fire.- Deepak Chopra
No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can’t find the point where these molecules became conscious.- Deepak Chopra
Once you know who you really are, being is enough. You feel neither superior to anyone nor inferior to anyone and you have no need for approval because you’ve awakened to your own infinite worth.- Deepak Chopra
Relinquish your attachment to the known, step into the unknown, and you will step into the field of all possibilities.- Deepak Chopra
Remember, in our inmost being, we are all completely lovable because spirit is love. Beyond what anyone can make you think or feel about yourself, your unconditioned spirit stands, shining with a love nothing can tarnish.- Deepak Chopra
See the world as if for the first time; see it through the eyes of a child, and you will suddenly find that you are free.- 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
Silence is the great teacher and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence.- Deepak Chopra
Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.- Deepak Chopra
Spirit is passionate; without passion no one can be truly spiritual.- Deepak Chopra
Spiritual energy is the one kind that never runs out.- Deepak Chopra
Spiritual people should not be ashamed of being wealthy.- Deepak Chopra
Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.- Deepak Chopra
Take away all your labels and you are the Infinite Being.- Deepak Chopra
The direction of life is from duality to unity.- Deepak Chopra
The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.- Deepak Chopra
The scenery is time bound but the seer is timeless. You are the timeless seer in the midst of time bound scenery.- Deepak Chopra
The small things you do everyday- smiling at a stranger or paying someone a compliment -bring you closer to your spiritual truth, the purity of your soul.- Deepak Chopra
The soul knows everything. Be who you are and your life will transform forever.- Deepak Chopra
The true purpose of yoga is to discover that aspect of your being that can never be lost.- Deepak Chopra
There is a light within each of us that can never be diminished or extinguished. It can only be obscured by forgetting who we are.- Deepak Chopra
There is a plan, and your soul knows what it is.- Deepak Chopra
This is the key to life: the ability to reflect, the ability to know yourself, the ability to pause for a second before reacting automatically. If you can truly know yourself, you will begin the journey of transformation.- Deepak Chopra
To define yourself is to limit yourself. Without labels you remain the infinite being.- Deepak Chopra
Trust that your soul has a plan, and even if you can’t see it completely, know that everything will unfold as it is meant to.- 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
Understand that if a deep desire lives in your heart, a dream that is part of your soul’s fiber, a path exists to bring it to life.- Deepak Chopra
Unity consciousness is a state of enlightenment where we pierce the mask of illusion which creates separation and fragmentation. Behind the appearance of separation is one unified field of wholeness. Here the seer and the scenery are one.- Deepak Chopra
Unless there’s a personal transformation, there can be no social transformation.- Deepak Chopra
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.- 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
We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.- Deepak Chopra
We must find out for ourselves that inside us is a god or goddess in embryo that wants to be born so that we can express our divinity.- Deepak Chopra
Whatever we focus our attention on will expand in our experience. If we focus on cultivating the higher qualities of love, compassion, joy and peace, they will expand – not only in our own lives, but also into the world beyond.- Deepak Chopra
When emotional intelligence merges with spiritual intelligence, human nature is transformed.- Deepak Chopra
When you contact the Higher Self, the source of power within, you tap into a reservoir of infinite power.- Deepak Chopra
You are not creating a new you; you are releasing a hidden you. The process is one of self discovery. The hidden you that wants to emerge is in perfect balance.- Deepak Chopra
You are not merely the physical body that you identify with out of habit. Your essential state is a field of infinite possibilities.- Deepak Chopra
You are not the drop in the ocean, but the ocean in the drop.- Deepak Chopra
Your only identity is I AM undefined and infinite. Any label you give yourself limits yourself.- Deepak Chopra
We’re all born with infinite potential and creativity. We all have it in us. Each and every one of us. That’s the only truth.- Deepak Chopra
Meditation helps you do less and accomplish more.- Deepak Chopra
Meditation is all about connecting with your soul. Part of maintaining your well-being is taking the time to disconnect from the outside to go within.- Deepak Chopra
People think meditation is a huge undertaking. Don’t think of it like that.- Deepak Chopra
Prayer is you speaking to God. Meditation is allowing the spirit to speak to you.- Deepak Chopra
The purpose of meditation is to stop thinking for a time, wait for the fog of thought to thin, and glimpse the spirit within.- Deepak Chopra
Through silence, through meditation, and through non-judgment, you will access the first law, the Law of Pure Potentiality.- Deepak Chopra
We must go beyond the constant clamor of ego, beyond the tools of logic and reason, to the still, calm place within us: the realm of the soul.- Deepak Chopra
Yoga means union of the individual mind with universal mind, so meditation is considered the essence of yoga. The transformation of the mind and body during meditation is significantly more profound than simply resting with your eyes closed.- Deepak Chopra
Deepak Chopra Quotes on the Cosmos
I place my intention into the vast ocean of all possibilities and allow the universe to work through me.- Deepak Chopra
So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that’s just silly.- Deepak Chopra
Your entire universe is in your mind and nowhere else. To expand the universe, expand your mind.- Deepak Chopra
At any given time the universe is giving you the best result possible.- Deepak Chopra
Coincidences are not accidents but signals from the universe which can guide us toward our true destiny.- Deepak Chopra
Go first class all the way and the universe will respond by giving you the best.- Deepak Chopra
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.- Deepak Chopra
In our willingness to step into the unknown, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe.- Deepak Chopra
As I let go of the need to arrange my life, the universe brings abundant good to me.- Deepak Chopra
Put yourself in the hands of the universe-then you will have no need for control.- Deepak Chopra
Slip into the gap, have the desire, detach from the outcome, and let the universe take care of the details.- Deepak Chopra
So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.- Deepak Chopra
The more clarity you achieve, the more you will find that the universe is on your side, supporting your thoughts and intentions. Therefore, focus on clarity, not on getting results. The results will come according to their own rhythm and timing.- Deepak Chopra
The most powerful way to manifest is through subtle intention and choiceless awareness-intend to let go and flow.- Deepak Chopra
The Universe contains three things that cannot be destroyed; Being, Awareness and LOVE.- Deepak Chopra
The universe has a body and soul and evolves through cosmic time. As microcosms of stardust, we do the same.- Deepak Chopra
The universe has much bigger plans for you than you ever dreamed of for yourself.- Deepak Chopra
The universe has no restrictions. You place restrictions on the universe with your expectations.- Deepak Chopra
The universe is alive and conscious, and it responds to our intent when we have our intimate relationship with the universe and see it not as separate but as our extended body.- Deepak Chopra
There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.- Deepak Chopra
This moment – the one you’re experiencing right now – is the culmination of all the moments you have experienced in the past. This moment is as it is because the entire universe is as it is.- Deepak Chopra
We are the universe pretending to be individuals.- Deepak Chopra
When you feel small and weak, remind yourself that you are a child of the universe who is connected to the infinite source.- Deepak Chopra
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