Deepak Chopra

If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It’s very important to be aware of them every time they come up.

If you want to get what you want give up being right.

A verse from the Veda says, ‘What you see, you become.’ In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes you what you are. This is a quite literal statement.

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.

The most dangerous people are those who have passion but lack wisdom.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding.

Why do you treat me as they do, as though I were exactly what I want to be. Why do we treat people that way?

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.

Sir, I have found you an argument. I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

I do not like work even when someone else does it.

Tomorrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.

Leave the rest to the gods.

Oh man! There is no planet sun or star could hold you, if you but knew what you are.

Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a gray one.

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.