Deepak Chopra Quotes
From Deepak Chopra's The Way of the Wizard:
"When you look in the ashes, look well."
"No matter how hostile the conditions, life is inextinguishable."
"When you can begin to see the seeds of opportunity in the ashes of disaster, then
trust is beginning to grow."
"Seekers look into the crises that most people shun, because from hurt or failure or
disaster, one can seize the deepest truth."
"Step into a world where fear, violence, and destruction are reflections of our own
mistaken beliefs. In the light of trust, as it develops slowly over time, you will find that
you are a privileged child of the universe, entirely safe, entirely supported, entirely loved."
"Although words tell us who we are, we are still more than they can tell. No matter
how powerful the spell that words cast, people can change. The power of words can create
something new, not just a limit."
"There isn't a single thought you can have that doesn't send back some result."
"Does it ever occur to you that you can't lose anything because you never had it in
the first place? The only thing you've ever really had is yourself."
"Everything you fear about death is a projection from your own ignorance. You simply
fear what you know nothing about."
"Nothing dies at the moment of death. Death is a beginning, not an ending. When mortals
fear it, they are only holding onto their memories."
"Nature takes things away for its own good reasons at its own good time. If you want
flowers out of season, you can make silk flowers that will last forever, but who could pretend
that they are actually alive?"
"If you wish to escape pain and death, first escape this delusion that you are beyond
nature."
"Look at your rational doubts more closely. Behind the doubts stands a doubter,
behind the doubter a thinker, behind the thinker a speck of pure awareness that must be
conscious before any thought can arise."
"Molecules dissolve and pass away, but consciousness survives the death of the matter
on which it rides."
"Memories of shame, guilt, rejection, hatred, resentment, and other unloving feelings
cannot be converted to love. These images are what they are. Accept them and move to a
higher sense of Self, which is unconnected with memory."
"Immortality is at the core of human life, but it is wrapped in layer after layer of
contrary beliefs. These beliefs are actualized in daily life---we live our fears, wishes,
dreams, unconscious associations, and ultimately our deepest belief that we must die."
"Human bodies are born, grow old, and die. Identifying with this process is false
logic, but once embraced, it dooms us to die as well. We fall under the spell of mortality
and have no choice but to embrace death. To break the spell requires a shift of identity
focus from the time-bound to the timeless."
"Welcome all losses, even the ultimate loss of death."
"In a world of change there must be gain and loss."
"Look beyond your limited self to see your unlimited self. Pierce the mask of mortality."
"The nature of life is to contain both chaos and order. You must first be chaos before you
can be a dancing star."
"The intelligence and organizing power inside you has overcome obstacles with effortless
ease, despite all the struggle your conscious mind may think is necessary to keep life going."
"There are many ways of releasing old energies. One of the most powerful is simply to
acknowledge that they are there."
