Deepak Chopra

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.

According to this law [the law of Dharma], you have a unique talent and a unique way of expressing it. There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world--and for every unique talent and unique expression of that talent, there are also unique needs. When these needs are matched with the creative expression of your talent, that is the spark that creates affluence. Expressing your talents to fulfill needs creates unlimited wealth and abundance.

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

Meditation makes the entire nervous system go into a field of coherence.

So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that’s just silly.

In every conversation I’ve had – with housewives in Mumbai, with middle-class people, upper-class, in the slums – everyone says there is an underlying consciousness of karma. That people believe in karma – that what you’re putting out is going to come back. If I do something to you, the energy of it is going to come back to me in the future.

No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can’t find the point where these molecules became conscious.

For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it’s a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself.

There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one’s nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence.

Consciousness, rather than being an epiphenomenon of matter, is actually the source of matter. It differentiates into space, time, energy, information, and matter. Even though this view is an ancient view, an ancient world view, it is now finding some resonance amongst a few scientists.

I feel genius in great works of art. I have seen medical cures that science can’t explain, some seemingly triggered by faith. The same is true of millions of other people.

Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.

Karma is only in space, time, and causality. Your real self resides non-locally.

From a scientist’s perspective, to understand everything that you need to know about human beings, you only have to tinker with all the mechanical parts of genes and the brain until there are no more secrets left.

Nature is a self regulating ecosystem of awareness.

Scientists claim that quantum theory proves consciousness moves to another universe at death.

Western science is still frozen in an obsolete, Newtonian worldview that is based literally on superstition — and we can call it the superstition of materialism — which says you and I are physical entities of the physical universe.

It is a place where there is something called the observer effect, or the power of intention, which means intention is very powerful when brought to this space and it orchestrates its own fulfillment – what people call the law of attraction – so those are wonderful qualities of your own spirit.

In the absence of a conscious entity, the moon remains a radically ambiguous and ceaselessly flowing quantum state.

In their new book The Healing Self, due to be released tomorrow, Deepak Chopra, M.D. and Rudolph Tanzi, Ph.D. are telling the world that habits can be changed, but so can neural pathways and even gene expression itself.