Why Is God Laughing? Quotes

“When the pain of being the same becomes greater than the pain of being different, you change.”
― Deepak Chopra, Why Is God Laughing?: The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism

“God descends to earth like fresh spring rain, and at every level his grace is received differently. For some it feels like love, for others like salvation. It feels like safety and warmth at one level, like coming home at another.”
― Deepak Chopra, Why Is God Laughing?: The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism

“Either you're a person wondering if you have a soul, or you're a soul who knows that being a person isn't real.”
― Deepak Chopra, Why Is God Laughing?: The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism

“Churchgoers feel righteous, responsible, and obedient to God's will. They view anyone unlike themselves as devoid of values, and therefore unworthy of God's love. By denying God to all those who have strayed from the path of righteousness, the devout are unwittingly taking on themselves a role that belongs only to God.”
― Deepak Chopra, Why Is God Laughing?: The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism

“In God's eyes, walking on water is no more miraculous than the ability of hemoglobin to bond with oxygen inside a red blood corpuscle.”
― Deepak Chopra, Why Is God Laughing?: The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism

“He (God) is right and always has been, because in reality God is only love.”
― Deepak Chopra, Why Is God Laughing?: The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism

“In reality a baby is a field of infinite potential expressing the highest intelligence in Nature.”
― Deepak Chopra, Why Is God Laughing?: The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism

“Commit yourself to the possibility that everything you see around you is far less real than God. You want to see the truth "with all your heart, with all you soul, and with all your mind," as Jesus says. This is actually a commitment to joy.”
― Deepak Chopra, Why Is God Laughing?: The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism

“If you pay attention to those aspects of God that demonstrate love, truth, beauty, intelligence, order, and spiritual evolution, those aspects will begin to expand in your life. Bit by bit, like a mosaic, disparate fragments of grace will merge to form a complete picture. Eventually this picture will replace the ore threatening one you have carried around inside you since infancy.”
― Deepak Chopra, Why Is God Laughing?: The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism

“He dumped its contents out on the tablecloth: a gold ring, a gold nugget, and a gold signet seal. Francisco pointed to each. I told you that this was the secret of happiness. The three objects belonged to a rich collector. When he was asleep they argued all the time. The gold ring declared it was better than the other two because miners had risked their lives to find it. The gold signet said it was better than the other two because it had sealed the messages of a king. They argued day and night, until the ring said. ‘Lets ask God’, He will decide which of us is the best. The other two agreed, and so they approached the Almighty. Each made its claim for being superior. God listened carefully, and when they were done, he said, ‘ I cant settle your dispute, I’m sorry. The gold signet seal grew angry ‘What do you mean, you cant settle it? You’re God.’ That’s the problem said God. I don’t see a ring, a nugget and a seal. All I see is gold.”
― Deepak Chopra, Why Is God Laughing?: The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism

“You begin to see yourself not in isolation but as part of the whole. It becomes possible to help others as you would help yourself, not because service and charity make you feel good, but because you recognize that you are the very person you serve.”
― Deepak Chopra, Why Is God Laughing?: The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism

“How can you seek God if he's already here? It's like standing in the ocean and crying out, 'I want to get wet.' You want to get over the line to God. It turns out he was always there." Francisco's eyes began to gleam. "Grace comes to those who stop struggling. When it really sinks in that there's nothing you can do to find God, he suddenly appears. That's the deepest mystery, the only one that counts.”
― Deepak Chopra, Why Is God Laughing?: The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism

“But the ancient sages of India taught that fear was born of duality; when human beings realized that they were no longer part of God, they immediately became afraid of what might happen to them. In”
― Deepak Chopra, Why Is God Laughing?: The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism

“When you explore yourself on the inner plane, you are working with intuition. It’s a common misconception that intuition is at odds with science, but Einstein himself said that what separated him from atheists was that “they cannot hear the music of the spheres.” In truth, science and spirituality both depend upon intuition, for the greatest scientific discoveries are made through creative leaps, rather than by following a linear trail of established facts.”
― Deepak Chopra, Why Is God Laughing?: The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism

“Value freedom above everything. I said earlier that we all hear two impulses inside ourselves. One says, “This is what I want to do,” the other says, “This is what I’d better do.” The first is the voice of freedom; the second is the voice of fear. The divine plan is infinitely complex, but when it comes down to each person, it’s infinitely simple. You get to be whoever you want to be; you get to do whatever you want to do. That’s not the same as what your ego wants you to be or what your fantasies urge you to do. Spiritual freedom releases you into infinite Being. Then and only then will you encounter the real you. At that moment, all that you wanted to be in the past will be seen as a temporary impulse. And each impulse to be free will been seen to be leading you in the right direction.”
― Deepak Chopra, Why Is God Laughing?: The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism

“Since God has infinite intelligence, the more your perception expands, the closer you come to God. There’s not even a need to seek, only to see.”
― Deepak Chopra, Why Is God Laughing?: The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism

“Whatever you pay attention to will grow. If you pay attention to those aspects of God that demonstrate love, truth, beauty, intelligence, order, and spiritual evolution, those aspects will begin to expand in your life. Bit by bit, like a mosaic, disparate fragments of grace will merge to form a complete picture. Eventually this picture will replace the more threatening one you have carried around inside you since infancy.”
― Deepak Chopra, Why Is God Laughing?: The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism

“Whatever you pay attention to will grow. If you pay attention to those aspects of God that demonstrate love, truth, beauty, intelligence, order, and spiritual evolution, those aspects will begin to expand in your life. Bit by bit, like a mosaic, disparate fragments of grace will merge to form a complete picture. Eventually this picture will replace the more threatening one you have carried around inside you since infancy. The external world claims to be”
― Deepak Chopra, Why Is God Laughing?: The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism