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Date of Birth
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22-October-1947
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Place of Birth
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New Delhi
(India)
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Nationality
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United States of America, India
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Also know as
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Dr. Deepak Chopra, Chopra, Dipak ÄŒopra, Chopra, Deepak, Deepak Chopra
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Profession
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Physician, Writer, Public speaker, Actor, Film Producer, Screenwriter
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Quotes
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- Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.
- The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.
- Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.
- Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.
- There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
- To think is to practice brain chemistry.
- The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal.
- Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.
- The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.
- You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.
- We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.
- You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.
- Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.
- The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.
- If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It's very important to be aware of them every time they come up.
- Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given.
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Deepak Chopra is an Indian-American author, holistic health/New Age guru, and alternative medicine practitioner. Chopra began a mainstream medical career in hospitals and universities in the Northeastern United States, becoming Chief of Staff at the New England Memorial Hospital. In 1985, Chopra met Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who invited him to study Ayurveda. Chopra left his position at the NEMH and became the founding president of the American Association of Ayurvedic Medicine, and was later named medical director of the Maharishi Ayurveda Health Center.
In 1996, Chopra and neurologist David Simon founded the Chopra Center for Wellbeing, advertising it as having a "holistic view of life".
Chopra has enjoyed business success from the sale of a range of books, courses and alternative and complementary health products. He has written more than 50 books and they have been translated into 35 languages.
Chopra is a controversial figure. According to a 2008 article in Time magazine, he is "a magnet for criticism", primarily from those involved in science and medicine. Critics have taken issue with his "nonsensical" references to quantum theory, criticized his descriptions of AIDS and cancer, and said the claims he makes for ineffective alternative medicine may bring "false hope" to people who are sick.
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