Quotes by Deepak Chopra

"The best way to be in the present moment is to be aware that you’re not in the moment. As soon as you’re aware that you’re not in the moment, you’re in the moment."

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Love and power are hard enough to reconcile.

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They say that you can't live on love alone (...). God is our witness, how determined we tried, but you carry so much emotional burden into marriage. Especially us, since we both lived alone until we were forty. It was as difficult to please the other as it is to pamper the shopkeeper's cat.

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I guess every couple starts out wanting to belong to each other, that's the most natural, right? I mean, we're born to belong to someone until we're gone.

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A heart that has learned to trust can be at peace with the world.

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The happiness that comes from a specific reason is only one form of misery, since that reason can be taken away from us at any moment.

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Love changes over time, but it never disappears. It is always present in its entirety.

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Love needs no reason. It speaks of the irrational wisdom of the heart.

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Time is the enemy of the ego, not of love.

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If you depend on someone, treat them like an object.

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To see love in the moment, you must clear the window of your perception.

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You put your whole self in front of another person, and you get the same in return. You become each other's mirrors, and when you look into this mirror (...), you see survival, will, feelings, goals and love. It's all there, but not complete. The details don't fit perfectly, creating conflict and pain.

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Love is about being able to survive the wounds inflicted by the other and feeling bad about the wounds we inflict in return.

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The ultimate mystery of love is that you look deep into yourself and find who you are, but then by offering love we give this Self away. I don't want to give half a person to my beloved, so I have to find my own wholeness.

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Desires have a special place in our hearts, because although each of us cherishes many, many desires during our lives, we throw away our old desires as if they never existed. Longing never ends, no matter how many wishes we have come true, and none of them last long enough to get rid of longing.

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The feeling of love always contains its opposite. Behind the strongest love is hidden an equally strong hatred. (...) The only difference is that love has already blossomed, while hatred is only present as a germ. (...) Think back to a time when someone you really loved hurt you! It could have been indifference or betrayal, or some event that revealed that the person you love is not perfect, but only human. If you are honest with yourself, you remember how strongly and suddenly love can change into another emotion.

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Although words tell us who we are, we are much more than words can describe.

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Many secrets of love remain hidden from people's attention. In order to receive love, you must first give it. You cannot set conditions for the other person's unconditional love either. You have to learn to love yourself first, then you can love others. For the most part, this all seems self-explanatory! Why don't we live by it?!

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People mostly want to make life frothy. They all want more and more for themselves. With such an attitude, life is not a gift, but rather a booty that you steal from others.

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When you love someone, you find enough courage to say: - You are my mirror! You look into the eyes of your lover and accept what you see there, along with your shortcomings. If you do this, these shortcomings will suddenly not seem so terrible.

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Sometimes I think that the world could be changed in a single day if the golden rule were: treat others the way you want them to treat you!

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People shout when their hearts are far apart. They speak properly when their hearts are in harmony with the other's. But when two hearts unite, no words are needed at all.

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The tragedy of everyday life is that we mistake our shadow for reality. It is impossible to be outside the web woven of love, and in those moments when we sink too deep into oblivion, a message comes to us: "You are loved."

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I always have to remind myself to look beneath the surface of things, because a flower is more than just a flower - rain and rainbows, clouds, earth and the immensity of space.

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True love is here and now. Whatever you remember or project is just a shadow of love.

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Don't tell your dreams to the world - whisper them to love.

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We all need to believe that we are lovable and that we are loved.

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On my wanderings I met an old sanyasi, his name was Ganaka - he then told me something very important. Let the world be your teacher! I didn't understand what he meant then, but now I do. Any experience that traps you is a worldly experience. The world is deceptive, it's hard to see how it really is. However, this world is nothing more than desire, and every desire prompts one to follow. Why? Because we think it's real. The world teaches nothing but "don't believe in me!" Desires are phantoms: they are only good to hide the grinning face of death. Be wise! Don't believe anything!

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When you are happy, go deep inside and feel the one who is experiencing happiness. When you are grieving, go deep within yourself and feel the one who is experiencing the grief. Both are the same. There is a tiny, motionless point that watches everything, witnesses everything. Be with this stillness whenever you can. Notice it instead of gliding over it. Intimacy is your most powerful ally. I am your being. There is nothing alien to us about being simple. The tiny still point will not be a great experience at first, but it can grow infinitely large. When you die and have nothing left to hold on to, I am will fill the whole universe. Sages throughout the ages have repeated this over and over again. However, you should not accept the truth at second hand. Find in yourself the one who says I am and expands and fills you. Once that's done, you're safe. Your being will be identical with your soul.

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The future is something that can always be created with a separate intention, but never by fighting the present.

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He who gives more will receive more, as he keeps the abundance of the universe circulating in his life.

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All relationships are give and take. When we give, the consequence is that we also receive, and vice versa.

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Time is not actually a shot arrow, a clock or a river, but the fluctuations of the flavors of existence.

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Although the soul is not fixed to a place, it still resides in the fingerprint called the body.

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Every desire carries within itself the mechanism of its spontaneous fulfillment. Desire is a pure possibility that seeks to manifest itself.

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The word "illusion" has many meanings, and some illusions are indeed very tempting. For example, it is a tempting illusion that our love will last forever. Or the illusion that we never die. Or that ignorance is bliss. Buddha saw the danger in such temptations. He rarely spoke harshly, but I can imagine how he popped these bubbles one after the other: love is indeed finite, everyone dies, ignorance is indeed equal to stupidity.

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Renunciation is the door everyone must walk through to find passion. Without resignation, the focus of passion is man's longing for pleasure and excitement. With renunciation, however, passion is directed directly at life itself - passion in the spiritual sense: to let the eternal and never-ending flow of the river of life sweep you away.

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- I know what you're thinking (...). I'm so picky, aren't I? But I don't think I want too much. I don't expect him to be a heart-stopping bombshell or an Einstein. - You only have your own standards. (...) - That's right. I think of it as a package. If the package as a whole is in order, the details don't matter too much. - Provided that your package suits him, whoever he is...

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Love never forces you. Love is intelligent and brings you only what you need.

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Bad things don't happen to us; we invite them to learn from them.

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Gaps are created where we are afraid to see ourselves.

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Love is not the opposite of hate. Being complete, love has no opposite.

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No one is to blame. In the eyes of love, everyone does the best they can at their current level of consciousness.

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No matter how hostile the world may seem, a loving family remains a nest of safety, protection, and care.

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Need is a powerful force, able to create effective illusions.

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Experiencing falling in love is an easy state to describe. It has been compared to thousands of delights, from the sweetness of honey to the scent of roses. We are surrounded by a host of ideas, as if their complete dumping could somehow be a cure for our deep-seated insecurities. But as soon as the true day of love dawns, its rays shine brighter than any romance, for romance is intense love and longing, greedy longing and sensitive pain, the joy of a momentary feeling and the agony of a momentary parting.

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Falling in love, although spontaneous, is far from random - there are no coincidences in the spiritual life, only unrecognized patterns.

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It may seem paradoxical, but to find someone who loves you, the first step is to let go, because love is never an imagined image. Love does not depend in the least on external values.

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The fullness of reality is contained in the present moment.

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Imagine throwing a small stone into the water of a still lake and it creates ripples. Then after a while, when the waves subside, we throw another stone into the water. This is exactly what happens when we step into the field of pure silence and bring our intentions into it. In this silence, even the weakest desire creates waves. (...) However, if a person does not experience silence in his consciousness, his world of thoughts will be a stormy sea. You can throw not a pebble, but even an entire building into this turmoil, and even then there will be no noticeable change.

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What we call reality in everyday life is a projection of consciousness. In fact, there are no colors, sounds, textures, tastes or smells in the so-called real world. The real world is an amazingly ambiguous and moving quantum soup. Ripples of energy and information in an infinite space. The sky that an insect sees is not the same as what you and I see. The honey bee can see ultraviolet radiation. I have no idea what that might look like. When a bee sees a flower, it doesn't see it the way you and I do, although it can smell the honey from afar. Snakes can sense infrared radiation. The bat hears the echo of the ultrasound. The chameleon's eyeball rotates around two axes. You can't imagine how a chameleon would see this. So what is reality? The answer is that it doesn't exist.

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Whatever has come into contact with our lives at any given moment, (we can be sure) is exactly what is needed in our lives at that moment. There is a message behind every event.

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There is no debt in the universe that remains unpaid.

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Success in life can also be defined as unbroken happiness and the unfolding realization of worthy goals. Success is the ability to effortlessly fulfill your desires.

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A single harsh word from another person can physically destroy the body, but a single loving word can restore harmony.

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Through happiness - our simplest and at the same time most deeply rooted desire - everything in the world that we fear and want to change can be transformed.

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You have to learn to separate the moment from the situation. The two are far from the same. The situation surrounds the present moment.

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The present has no duration. The moment you try to measure the moment of the present, it already seems far away. (...) The now is constantly renewed and timeless, since time cannot command it to stop. The now does not age or die.

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Conflicts flare up because we fail to understand that there are as many points of view as there are people. Our individual vision is a gift to us.

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If you don't take responsibility, you put your fate in the hands of others. If you blame someone else, you expect that person to change (...). You can wait for the rest of your life! It's hard enough to change yourself, so get rid of the urge to change others.

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Even if you believe that you have justly judged others, those people will certainly distance themselves from you. He never made anyone happy when he was proven right. The only consequence is strife and opposition, because by proving your right, you always claim that someone is wrong.

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All our relationships are a reflection of our relationship with ourselves.

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Any value in life is multiplied only by giving... whoever does not cooperate in multiplying values ​​by passing on is not worthy to receive or give.

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Success, wealth, good health, and empowering relationships are by-products of happiness, not the root cause.

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Yoga is not a competitive sport, with strength and effort you will not achieve the unification of body, mind and spirit. Yoga is a system of conscious release.

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The real is that which cannot be lost, while everything that has a beginning and an end is unreal.

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If the practice of yoga only provided beneficial physical effects, it would have a rightful place in our lives even then. In its final essence, however, yoga is much more than a method of improving physical condition. This is the science of a balanced life, a way to realize the full human potential.

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Nature is like a symphony conducted quietly.

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I don't blame anyone or anything for my situation - not even myself. I also know that every problem is an opportunity in disguise, and this readiness for opportunity gives me the ability to seize the moment and turn the situation around for the better.

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I accept things as they are, not as I want them to be right now. This is important to understand. I can wish for things to be different in the future, but at the moment I have to accept them as they are.

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When someone selfishly wants to gain money or power, he wastes energy chasing the illusion of happiness instead of enjoying happiness in the moment of life.

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Nature uses the smallest force in its operation. The grass doesn't try to grow, it just grows. The fish doesn't try to swim, it just swims. The flowers don't want to open, they just bloom. Birds don't try to fly, they fly. This is their inherent nature.

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Care, attention, sympathy, appreciation, and love are the most valuable gifts we can give and they don't cost money.

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If you don't stick tooth and nail to your truth, it doesn't mean that you don't have your own point of view, it just means that you don't feel the need to defend it. And it is precisely in the state of defenselessness that we become invincible, since we no longer offer an attack surface.

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There is natural greatness in simplicity. You cannot gain this trait by will. Your being radiates it.

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When recalling our past wounds, we focus our energies on preventing a past injury from happening again. However, we will never be able to eliminate the danger of new grievances simply by trying to drag the past onto the present.

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Unhappy people are never successful, and all the money and success in the world won't change that.

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I feel for you. I know what you are going through. You don't have to experience certain feelings just to make me happy. I will help you get through it. You don't have to be afraid that it will drive you away. I don't expect you to be perfect. You don't disappoint me.

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Your heart is the natural home of the soul. If you ask someone to show you where their soul resides, everyone will point to their heart. However, he is not aware of what the heart is really capable of.

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The power of love is the power of purity.

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The power of love is present everywhere, and believe me, it creates order and peace in your life as well.

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Garbage is a natural part of every living system. We all buy and throw things away. Eventually, everything and everyone's life comes to an end.

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We are travelers on a cosmic journey - stardust swirling in the maelstrom of infinity. Life is eternal. However, the expressions of life are fleeting, fleeting, ephemeral. (...) We stopped for a moment to meet each other, feel each other, love each other and benefit from each other. This is a precious moment, but fleeting. A small episode in eternity. If we receive care, sincerity, and love, we create wealth and joy for each other. And then this moment was worth the fatigue.

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If we are defensive and judgmental of others and do not accept life's moments as they are, we will constantly encounter resistance. Anytime we sense resistance, we must recognize that it will only increase if we force the situation. We don't want to stand as stiff as a tall oak tree that snaps and falls in a storm. We want to be flexible like the reed that bends in the storm and survives it.

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Like it or not, everything that happens in this moment is the result of decisions made in the past. Unfortunately, a good part of our choices are not conscious, and because of this we don't even think of them as decisions - but they are. He who has been offended is likely to be offended. He who is praised will surely blossom and be filled with satisfaction. But let's think about it: these are also decisions between options. The person who has been offended can decide whether to be offended. The person who is praised can also decide whether to let the flattery affect him or not.

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If you want to be happy, give joy to others, if you want love, learn to give love, if you want attention and appreciation, learn to give attention and appreciation, if you want material abundance, help others get rich! The easiest way to get something you want is actually to help others get it.

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Happiness greets us by accident, as an emotional surprise that quickly appears and disappears - like a surprise birthday party that, when it's over, leaves no lasting change behind.

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Neither our brains nor our genes are permanent structures; on the contrary, they undergo continuous change and development in every moment of our lives.

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The opinions of others strongly influence our idea of ​​our own identity. One side of the coin is that we long for the approval of others, because it strengthens our self-image. The other side is that we are afraid of others' disapproval, because it undermines the image we have of ourselves.

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The ego is actually very fickle. Compulsively dependent on approval, control and power. There is nothing wrong with these things in themselves. A problem arises when you become so dependent on them that you feel lost without approval, control, security and power.

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My heart provides a reliable guide when I trust it. It helps me experience empathy, compassion and love. The heart is the seat of emotional intelligence.

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Nothing is more intelligent, creative and powerful than our healing system - the one factor we consistently ignore.

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Every time you feel restless, overwhelmed or stressed, you are pushed into the background, the tendency to escape appears. Denial is a form of escape.

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Emotions also have their own level, where we can distinguish between empowering and toxic feelings, or between loving and harmful relationships.

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In a world of constant change, there is something that does not change.

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My love radiates like the light of a bonfire. It is directed at no one and denied to no one.

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There is no difficulty in getting to know your true self (...). Once you find the path, one step is followed by another without any struggle. All it takes is a little confidence to get started.

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Bad things happen to us all, but we differ in the valuable trait of how well we are able to accept them afterwards.

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Wherever a person goes, engaged in activity, he must carry inner peace with him. Then the tangled swirl around him never overshadows him, he can always draw creative power from his inner background.