Quotes from Deepak Chopra

For every intention, we might well ask, "How would this serve me and how would it serve everybody I come into contact with?" And if the answer is that it will create true joy and fulfillment in me and all those affected by my actions, then my intention, together with surrender to the nonlocal mind, orchestrates its own fulfillment.

When we find our core certainty within, then we no longer look for certainty outside. The unfathomable nature of the ever-changing world ceases to be a source of anxiety and instead is a source of joy and adventure.

If a life can be a series of perpetual surprises, that's the most joyous experience you can have.

I praise all of god's creations. It can't be that one part is perfect and the other part diseased. We are pained by knowing that we have sinned. That pain was given to us to show where we have lost love. If we listen to our own pain, we will find a way through to love once more. Sin is repaid by bliss. - Julian of Norwich

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.

The universe has no restrictions. You place restrictions on the universe with your expectations.

The simplest definition of spirituality is self-awareness. Inside yourself is the peace, love, and truth that are attributes of God. When you contact this place, you meet your true self.

Chi is the equivalent of prana, and it, too, is an expression of consciousness. Chi is the subtle life-force energy that flows throughout the body and upholds health.

A study published in 2004 in the leading British medical journal, The Lancet, followed thirty thousand men and women on six continents and found that changing your lifestyle could prevent at least 90 percent of all heart disease. Yet for every dollar spent on health care in America, ninety-five cents goes to treat a disease after it has occurred.

Satan's greatest power was not that he could inflict evil. His greatest power was to make the sons of God forget who they were.

The mind isn't only the thoughts and sensations constantly streaming through it. There is a silent, invisible foundation to thought and sensations. Until that background is accounted for, individual consciousness mistakes itself, and in so doing it cannot help but mistake what it observes. This is expressed in a Vedic metaphor about the wave and the ocean: A wave looks like an individual as it rises from the sea, but once it sinks back, it knows that it is ocean and nothing but ocean.

Heavy thoughts don't have to cloud your day. You have good choices for how to lift yourself out of them.