I was always interested in going deeply into the life of the Prophet.
— Deepak Chopra
Yes, in all my research, the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion.
Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.
So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that's just silly.
Muhammad is more human, more self-doubting, even self-tortured at times. His story is full of adventure, intrigue, betrayal.
You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.
I teach people that no matter what the situation is, no matter how chaotic, no matter how much drama is around you, you can heal by your presence if you just stay within your center.
Mature workers are less impulsive, less reactive, more creative and more centered.
All religions develop, become exclusive, become divisive and quarrelsome.
I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?
Your immune cells are like a circulating nervous system. Your nervous system in fact is a circulating nervous system. It thinks. It's conscious.
My own training is in the field of neuroendocrinology and I really became very fascinated many years ago with the molecules of emotion, molecules that we call neuropeptides.
Ultimately spiritual awareness unfolds when you're flexible, when you're spontaneous, when you're detached, when you're easy on yourself and easy on others.
There is just no getting around that turning bad things into good things is up to you.
We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster.
We need to build websites with celebrity speakers who talk about the ideals of fairness, sharing, democratic cooperation, and altruism in public life.
Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.
Seeking can become stressful when you apply the same laws that you apply in the material world - hard work, exacting plans, driving ambition, and attachment to outcome.
The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode.
Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it's realistic or not.
Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.
I like Muhammad a lot, because he's like us more than anybody else. Jesus is just so exalted, and Buddha is just so exalted, it's almost beyond our reach.
Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.
I've always felt that technology can be used to our benefit and should be used to our benefit.
Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.
When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school.
Traditional Islam is a mixture of all obedience to Allah, and if that requires militancy, so be it.
And for me anyway, consciousness is three components: a personal component which for lack of a better word we can call the soul. A collective component which is more archetypal and a deeper level, and then a universal domain of consciousness.
A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness.
Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things to aim for.
Victims always feel alone and helpless.
Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.
Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.
But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.
As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. You know, the two-year-old dies before the three-year-old shows up, the three-year-old dies before the teenager shows up.
I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.
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.
I grew up with a lot of Muslim friends, and the whole idea of revelation has been a lifelong interest of mine.
Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all.
So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.
In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.
The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.
Religions take donations and don't pay taxes.
My father was a doctor, an army cardiologist.
In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.
Consciousness conceives, governs, constructs, and becomes the activity of the body.
We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is luxurious by any measure.
No solution can ever be found by running in three different directions.
Passivity is the same as defending injustice.
A risk-free life is far from being a healthy life.
