Brotherhood Quotes

“Perhaps the most fulfilling thing in medicine is sitting with a patient who has been saddled with a chronic disease for years and had lots of concerns about cirrhosis, liver failure, the possibility of having to have a liver transplant, the possibly of developing cancer in the liver, a patient who has fought through a year-long treatment with side effects including sleep disturbances, irritability, a mental fog and being able to tell him, “Mr. Tyler, you’re cured. You don’t need to see me again.”
― Deepak Chopra, Brotherhood: Dharma, Destiny, and the American Dream

“I believe it is my dharma to not get inoculated because God ordains who will be diseased and who will be healthy. You obviously believe it is your dharma to inoculate me. Now it is over and you are guests in my home. This is the least I can offer you.”
― Deepak Chopra, Brotherhood: Dharma, Destiny, and the American Dream

“If the only tool you have in your toolbox is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail.”
― Deepak Chopra, Brotherhood: Dharma, Destiny, and the American Dream

“genes are not clones. At age seventy their genetic profile will be completely different.”
― Deepak Chopra, Brotherhood: Dharma, Destiny, and the American Dream

“churchgoing, as I saw it, was primarily social. It showed that you conformed to the norm of religious worship, which means that you accept groupthink. You define God secondhand, through revelations given to prophets and teachers many centuries ago. Spirituality is firsthand experience. It takes you on an inner journey from hope and faith to real knowledge that no one else has spoon-fed you.”
― Deepak Chopra, Brotherhood: Dharma, Destiny, and the American Dream

“the Kingdom of Heaven is within.” This”
― Deepak Chopra, Brotherhood: Dharma, Destiny, and the American Dream

“A study published in 2004 in the leading British medical journal, The Lancet, followed thirty thousand men and women on six continents and found that changing your lifestyle could prevent at least 90 percent of all heart disease. Yet for every dollar spent on health care in America, ninety-five cents goes to treat a disease after it has occurred.”
― Deepak Chopra, Brotherhood: Dharma, Destiny, and the American Dream

“If atoms were no longer tiny bits of matter but ghosts of swirling energy, if the universe operated as a whole rather than as a machine with countless separate parts, if time can bend and two particles separated by billions of light years can communicate instantly, disregarding the speed of light, our understanding of the human body needs to be totally reframed.”
― Deepak Chopra, Brotherhood: Dharma, Destiny, and the American Dream

“for every dollar spent on health care in America, ninety-five cents goes to treat a disease after it has occurred.”
― Deepak Chopra, Brotherhood: Dharma, Destiny, and the American Dream

“In an ideal world everyone would ask “Who am I?” every day, and since “I” is constantly shifting, each new day would bring a new answer.”
― Deepak Chopra, Brotherhood: Dharma, Destiny, and the American Dream

“Spiritually, to be a criminal is a form of suffering, so this was the last gesture of atonement needed before Shiva, lord of spiritual seekers, was satisfied that the thief deserved enlightenment.”
― Deepak Chopra, Brotherhood: Dharma, Destiny, and the American Dream

“Where else could the most famous female dacoit, Phoolan Devi, surrender to police with ten thousand onlookers cheering as she placed her rifle down before a picture of Gandhi? (After serving her prison sentence, the “Bandit Queen of India” was elected to Parliament, only to be gunned down in front of her house in New Delhi before she turned forty.”
― Deepak Chopra, Brotherhood: Dharma, Destiny, and the American Dream

“The car was originally owned by a man who had made a fortune manufacturing bidis, the cheap cigarettes wrapped in the leaf of the ebony tree and tied at one end with a string.”
― Deepak Chopra, Brotherhood: Dharma, Destiny, and the American Dream

“His practice primarily screened people’s lungs for tuberculosis, which was rampant at the time.”
― Deepak Chopra, Brotherhood: Dharma, Destiny, and the American Dream

“Sita waits anxiously, and the next person she sees is a wandering monk who begs her for alms.”
― Deepak Chopra, Brotherhood: Dharma, Destiny, and the American Dream

“In Hinduism and Buddhism, dharma has various connotations, but generally it means cheerfully fulfilling your moral and ethical duty. Doing the right thing.”
― Deepak Chopra, Brotherhood: Dharma, Destiny, and the American Dream

“Unlike other religions in the world the Hindu religion does not claim any one prophet; it does not worship any one god; it does not subscribe to any one dogma; it does not believe in any one philosophic concept; it does not follow any one set of religious rites or performances; in fact, it does not appear to satisfy the narrow traditional features of any religion or creed. It may broadly be described as a way of life and nothing more.”
― Deepak Chopra, Brotherhood: Dharma, Destiny, and the American Dream