Deepak Chopra

A verse from the Veda says, ‘What you see, you become.’ In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes you what you are. This is a quite literal statement.

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

According to this law [the law of Dharma], you have a unique talent and a unique way of expressing it. There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world–and for every unique talent and unique expression of that talent, there are also unique needs. When these needs are matched with the creative expression of your talent, that is the spark that creates affluence. Expressing your talents to fulfill needs creates unlimited wealth and abundance.

You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.

If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It’s very important to be aware of them every time they come up.

If you want to get what you want give up being right.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

You are braver than you believe. Stronger than you seem. And smarter than you think.

Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race – the individual’s distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety’s or comfort’s sake, to stand well in his neighbor’s eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Revolutions go not backward.

Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.

Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

That which builds is better than that which is built.

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.