Deepak Chopra’s 16 Most Enlightening Quotes

As international Wellness guru Deepak Chopra (67) wraps up his trip to South Africa with an observation that Durban, Cape Town and Johannesburg “were uniquely enlightening experiences”…here are some of our favourite enlightening quotes from the author below.

The New Age speaker was in the country to discuss “wellbeing”…of which he said South Africa as a nation was not doing so well because the minority are prospering.  Chopra, who was born in New Delhi, also mentioned that while Durban is a lot like India, he prefers Durban because it’s cleaner.

16 of Deepak Chopra’s Most Enlightening Quotes

1. If you want to do really important things in life and big things in life, you can’t do anything by yourself. And your best teams are your friends and your siblings.

2. In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

3. You can’t make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.

4. The highest levels of performance come to people who are centered, intuitive, creative, and reflective – people who know to see a problem as an opportunity.

5. There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.

6. Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.

7. The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

8. Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it’s realistic or not.

9. Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.

10. The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing.

11. Passivity is the same as defending injustice.

12. You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.

13. I, of course, meditate for two hours every morning. It’s part of my schedule; I wake up at 4 a.m. every day and I love it.

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

15. Your conscious brain cannot multitask. If I’m speaking to you and checking my I-Phone at the same time, I’m doing neither. This is why our society is frazzled; this misconception that we can consciously do more than one thing at a time effectively.

16. There is just no getting around that turning bad things into good things is up to you.