Deepak Chopra, MD, is a prolific Indian American author, speaker, and alternative medicine advocate. His work focuses on integrative medicine and personal transformation at the intersection of science and spirituality.
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Stay a verb—don’t become a noun.
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If you bring forth what is within you it will save you. If you do not, it will destroy you.
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We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern.
Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.
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Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream.
Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turn, then to go forward does not get you any nearer.
I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.
Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.