See the world as if for the first time; see it through the eyes of a child, and you will suddenly find that you are free. Deepak Chopra More Quotes by Deepak Chopra More Quotes From Deepak Chopra Base your happiness on being real, not on illusions and expectations. Deepak Chopra being-realrealexpectations Our minds influence the key activity of the brain, which then influences everything; perception, cognition, thoughts and feelings, personal relationships; they’re all a projection of you. Deepak Chopra perceptionkeysfeelings The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness. It is the goal of every other goal. Ben Henretig has embarked on an ambitious project to document a country and culture that has embraced Happiness as a part of its national policy Deepak Chopra ambitiousgoalcountry Those trees are your lungs. The earth recycles as your body. The rivers recycle as your circulation. The air is your breath. So what do we call the environment? Deepak Chopra airriverstree The body must be credited with an immense fund of know-how. Deepak Chopra ayurvedatouchinghands The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor's badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully. Deepak Chopra insanespiritualworld In order to acquire anything in the physical universe, you have to relinquish your attachment to it. This doesn't mean you give up your intention to create your desire...and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the result. Deepak Chopra dont-give-upgiving-upwisdom The purpose of meditation is to stop thinking for a time, wait for the fog of thought to thin, and glimpse the spirit within. Deepak Chopra fogmeditationthinking Life is a walk to the edge of a cliff. Every day we get a step nearer and what lies over the brink, no one can tell. Deepak Chopra cliffsstepslying My intent is to be generous of spirit and live with total integrity every day of my life. Deepak Chopra generousspiritintegrity We must never pretend appreciation, but if we feel it, then we must express it Deepak Chopra ifsfeelsappreciation Our real reality is beyond the five senses. Deepak Chopra five-sensesrealreality Spirit is passionate; without passion no one can be truly spiritual. Deepak Chopra passionatepassionspiritual We are the universe pretending to be individuals. Deepak Chopra individualismpretendingindividual If we were able to live at the level of the soul all the time, there would be no need for hindsight to appreciate the great truths of life. Deepak Chopra appreciatesoulwould-be Sex wasn't God's big mistake. Judging against sex was humanity's big mistake. Pleasure is as divine as any cathedral, any temple. Deepak Chopra judgingmistakesex If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Deepak Chopra blissegowant Inspiration is that state in which mind and heart are connected. Deepak Chopra inspirationmindheart Every man has a purpose, something special that he can do better than anyone else. Your work is to discover this, then give yourself to it. The extent to which you use your skills to add to the world determines your happiness. Deepak Chopra skillsgivingmen To bring yourself love and happiness, do what you can to bring them to others. Deepak Chopra happiness-and-loveself-love