Deepak Chopra Quotes About Suffering

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

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Relationship, Spiritual

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Apr 08, 2011

• People will suffer almost anything, as long as it means they don't have to change.

  Deepak Chopra

  Mean, Long, People

• Our most natural state is joy. It is the foundation for love, compassion, healing, and the desire to alleviate suffering.

  Deepak Chopra

  Healing, Compassion, Joy

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Jul 03, 2012

• Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting go of it the moment that the underlying cause is healed. Suffering is pain that we hold on to. It comes from the mind’s mysterious instinct to believe that pain is good, or that it cannot be escaped, or that the person deserves it.

  Deepak Chopra

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Pain

• No matter what advantages you are born with-- money, intelligence, an appealing personality, a sunny outlook, or good social connections-- none of these provides a magic key to an easy existence. Somehow life manages to bring difficult problems, the causes of untold suffering and struggle. How you meet your challenges makes all the difference between the promise of success and the specter of failure.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Struggle, Keys

  Deepak Chopra (2012). “Spiritual Solutions: Answers to Life's Greatest Challenges”, p.3, Harmony

• The secrets of alchemy exist to transform mortals from a state of suffering and ignorance to a state of enlightenment and bliss.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Ignorance, Secret

• The walls of isolation are not as solid as your suffering makes them seem.

  Deepak Chopra

  Wall, Suffering, Isolation

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Deeper Wound”, p.37, Random House

• The world is more than the sum of its suffering.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Mathematical Logic, Greek

• There exists within each of us a natural state of simple and open awareness in which we feel happy, light, and at peace. In contrast, the state of suffering, or unhappiness, is complicated.

  Deepak Chopra

  Simple, Light, Suffering

• The essence of wisdom is to see that there is always a solution once you realize that the mind, which seems to create so much suffering, has infinite potential to create fulfillment instead.

  Deepak Chopra

  Essence, Mind, Suffering

  "‘What Is Wrong with Me?’: Deepak Chopra on How to Overcome Negativity". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2012.

• We can begin to let go of the complications that cause us to suffer by cultivating a simple state of awareness. In this process, tiny steps yield big results, in part because simplicity is nature's default position. Suffering and the complications that fuel it are unnatural; it wastes energy to maintain complexity.

  Deepak Chopra

  Letting Go, Simple, Yield

• The beginning of suffering is often a refusal to look at the situation as it really is.

  Deepak Chopra

  Suffering, Looks, Refusal

• Ask yourself, "Is there anything in my life that is causing me to feel a sense of unease, discomfort, or pain?" You can choose a persistent issue that has bothered you for years, or it may be something that has recently come up for you. While it's fine to focus on a chronic, physical disorder, don't approach this exercise as a cure - we're focusing on patterns of perception that encourage us to hold onto suffering.

  Deepak Chopra

  Pain, Exercise, Years

• I think evil is our collective shadow. Each one of us has a tendency for the diabolical. If I put you in inhumane conditions, if you're not educated, if you're extremely poor, if you're humiliated, then as a child if you suffer abuse, then you will manifest even when you grow up.

  Deepak Chopra

  Children, Growing Up, Thinking

  "Deepak Chopra Traces Jesus' Untold Story". "Hannity & Colmes" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. November 10, 2008.

• Laughter is Humanity's mechanism to escape suffering.

  Deepak Chopra

  Laughter, Humanity, Suffering

  "Iconoclasts". Sundance Channel Original Series, Episode 3.03, November 08, 2007.

• If we stop thinking of ourselves and only of helping others, you will start to see a dramatic improvement in the suffering we are all going through.

  Deepak Chopra

  Helping Others, Thinking, Suffering

  "Deepak Chopra: Spiritual healing during times of crisis". CNN.com chat room, www.cnn.com. September 20, 2001.

• Compassion is the feeling of shared suffering. When you feel someone else's suffering, there is the birth of understanding.

  Deepak Chopra

  Compassion, Understanding, Feelings

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Sep 12, 2012

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