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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Life’s work is to wake up, to let the things that enter into the circle wake you up rather than put you to sleep. The only way to do this is to open, be curious, and develop some sense of sympathy for everything that comes along, to get to know its nature and let it teach you what it will.
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There is light in darkness. You just have to find it.
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. . . it is almost always the case that whatever has wounded you will also be instrumental in your healing.
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Respect the fact that all you do and are now has evolved for a good reason and serves an important purpose.
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Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run, but it will never make you less afraid.
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Happiness is closer to the experience of acceptance and contentment than it is to pleasure. True happiness exists as the spacious and compassionate heart’s willingness to feel whatever is present.
You know why it’s hard to be happy—it’s because we refuse to LET GO of the things that make us sad.
The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one’s own mind and heart.
Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.
Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.