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.

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.

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

It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.

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

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

The soul’s emphasis is always right.

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Virtue is too often merely local.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.