Deepak Chopra Quotes About Anxiety

• Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Break Up

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Dec 16, 2011

• If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another. The universe has no fixed agenda. Once you make any decision, it works around that decision. There is no right or wrong, only a series of possibilities that shift with each thought, feeling, and action that you experience.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Worry, Decision

  "The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life". Book by Deepak Chopra, 2004.

• The best use of imagination is creativity. The worst use of imagination is anxiety.

  Deepak Chopra

  Creativity, Imagination, Anxiety

  Twitter post from Sep 26, 2012

• Don't try to steer the river.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Rivers, Anxiety

• Pain in the present is experienced as hurt. Pain in the past is remembered as anger. Pain in the future is perceived as anxiety. Unexpressed anger, redirected against yourself and held within, is called guilt. The depletion of energy that occurs when anger is redirected inward creates depression.

  Deepak Chopra

  Hurt, Pain, Past

• There is no holy life. There is no war between good and evil. There is no sin and no redemption. None of these things matter to the real you. But they all matter hugely to the false you, the one who believes in the separate self. You have tried to take your separate self, with all its loneliness and anxiety and pride, to the door of enlightenment. But it will never go through, because it is a ghost.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Real, War

• If you are having the experience of anxiety, your body is making adrenaline and cortisone, if you are having the experience of tranquility, your body starts making valium, if you are having the experience of exhilaration and joy, your body makes interleukins and interferons which are powerful anti-cancer drugs. So, your body is constantly converting your experiences into molecules.

  Deepak Chopra

  Powerful, Cancer, Joy

  Interview with Veronica M. Hay, www.peopleandpossibilities.com.

• Smile, breathe, and go slowly. Thich Nhat Hanh Don't try to steer the river.

  Deepak Chopra

  Rivers, Anxiety, Trying

• From a pure heart anything can be accomplished. If you ask what the universe is doing, it is eavesdropping on your every desire.

  Deepak Chopra

  Heart, Anxiety, Desire

• You believe that you live in the world, where in fact the world lives within you.

  Deepak Chopra

  Believe, Anxiety, World

• Any decrease of anxiety is a step toward love.

  Deepak Chopra

  Anxiety, Steps, Decrease

• When we find our core certainty within, then we no longer look for certainty outside.
  The unfathomable nature of the ever-changing world ceases
  to be a source of anxiety and instead is a source of joy and adventure.

  Deepak Chopra

  Adventure, Joy, Anxiety

• Such a person needs meditation more than anyone else because they are headed for a crisis. If stress and anxiety are so great that you can't even imagine a calm clear mind, that indicates you are reaching your coping limits, and need to begin something like meditation just for the stress reduction benefits.

  Deepak Chopra

  Stress, Meditation, Anxiety

  "Questions About Meditation You Were Too Embarrassed To Ask, Explained By Deepak Chopra". Interview with Whitney Jefferson, www.buzzfeed.com. August 7, 2014.

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