Quotes from Deepak Chopra

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.

Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging.

The present moment dies every moment to become the past , is reborn every moment into the future. All experience is now. Now never ends.

You are not the drop in the ocean, but the ocean in the drop.

Not every sky will be blue and not every day is springtime. So on the spiritual path a person learns to find this kind of happiness without needing nice things to happen on the outside. Rather, you find happiness by being who you really are. This isn't mystical. Young children are happy being who they are. The trick is to regain such a state when you are grown and have seen the light and dark sides of life.

Owning your own feelings, rather than blaming them on someone else, is the mark of a person who has moved from contracted to expanded awareness.

If you contemplate the Golden Rule, it turns out to be an injunction to live by grace rather than by what you think other people deserve.

My body is a projection of my consciousness.

When the pain of being the same becomes greater than the pain of being different, you change.

Instead of asking "what's the problem?" ask "what's the creative opportunity?

And stop talking in that puffed-up way they taught you. Words aren't brains, you know.

Within every desire is the mechanics of its fulfillment.