A key–perhaps the key–to a happy life is self-knowledge, because as the Fifth Splendid Truth holds, I can build a happy life only on the foundation of my own nature. In my own case, I’ve found that the more my life reflects my real interests, values, and temperament, the happier I become. But it’s very [...]
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Deepak Chopra: Who Made God?
Prompted by his granddaughter, Deepak explores the questions: What is God? And who made God? In this episode of “Ask Deepak” on The Chopra Well, he approaches the query from a cosmological perspective. Think of a cosmic Las Vegas – there is eternal inflation and eternal fluctuation in the universe. Because this is happening eternally, [...]
What We Can Learn From Being Judged
We’ve all experienced the deflating feeling when someone judges us. Whether to our face or through a friend, the words carry the same weight. Someone else is saying we are less than, we aren’t good enough, we have failed, we are on the wrong path, or we are a disappointment. Even the strongest of us [...]
A Surprising But Effective Way To Figure Out What Someone Really Thinks
Over the weekend, I was trying to remember something I’d read in Tyler Cowen’s book, Discover Your Inner Economist: Using Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Dentist. And I looked it up–so interesting! Sometimes when we ask a question, we know that people might be reluctant to give a [...]
What The Buddha Might Say To Deepak Chopra
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. -The Buddha Many years ago we were teaching a meditation weekend in Plymouth, England. On the Saturday after the program was over for the day, Carole, one of the attendees, told us she had just been with Deepak Chopra, that he had walked out of the [...]
Create Your Purpose
I am tremendously consistent, you know? Interestingly so, since my actions and choices often seem random, haphazard, contradictory. And yet they take me exactly where I want to go. Where is that? I don’t know. I can see this clearly looking back, and I can feel it clearly right at this moment: there IS something [...]
How to Teach Our Kids About the Perils of Lying
This week’s episode of “Perfectly Imperfect Parents” on The Chopra Well is all about lying and how parents handle it with their kids. Deepak Chopra makes a guest appearance to discuss the grey areas, but one voice remains adamant that lying is never okay: Dr. Cara Natterson is a pediatrician and author of The Care [...]
Losing Your Mind and Finding Your Self
As the great Zen teacher Alan Watts said: We all need to go out of our minds at least once a day. When we go out of our minds we quickly come to our senses. Have you ever wondered how extraordinary the mind is? How it can reach from the sublime heights of intellectual ecstasy [...]
Love is All There Is
Valentine’s Day has us all thinking about love. We can’t escape the ads, the decorations in the stores, the promises of chocolates and roses at every point of purchase. We get caught up in the celebration and romance of this holiday. And yet, we know that there is much more to love than cards and [...]
The Truth Will Set You Free. Dare to Speak It.
It takes real courage to speak your truth and be who you really are. It’s not for the faint of heart. We are conditioned as children. We receive so many messages that “Who you are isn’t enough”. In order to fit in we begin to “lie” about who we are. It’s often easier to hide [...]
