Darling Duran

“These points all center on self-awareness. When you do anything—eat breakfast, make love, think about the universe, write a pop song—your mind can be in only one of three states: unconscious, aware, and self-aware. When you are unconscious, your mind is passively receiving the constant stream of input from the outside world, with minimal reactions and no creativity. When you are aware, you pay attention to this stream of input. You select, decide, sort, process, and so on, making choices about what to accept and what to reject. When you are self-aware, you loop back on what you are doing, asking How is this for me? At any given moment, all three states coexist.”
― Deepak Chopra, Super Brain: Unleashing the explosive power of your mind to maximize health, happiness and spiritual well-being

“You must use your emotions to empower your passion for reaching personal goals. You must utilize your intellect to strategize, and finally you must detach your awareness to acquire the sobriety needed to achieve those goals. In other words, you need to cycle between the passion generated by your fears and desires and the rational thoughts associated with self-control and discipline”
― Deepak Chopra, Super Brain: Unleashing the explosive power of your mind to maximize health, happiness and spiritual well-being

“we believe that behavior and expectations are key. When you become passionate and excited about learning again, the way children are, new dendrites and synapses will form, and your memory can once again be as strong as it was when you were younger.”
― Deepak Chopra, Super Brain: Unleashing the explosive power of your mind to maximize health, happiness and spiritual well-being

“You won’t know what your brain can do until you test its limits and push beyond them. No matter how inefficiently you are using your brain, one thing is certain: it is the gateway to your future. Your success in life depends on your brain, for the simple reason that all experience comes to us through our brains.”
― Deepak Chopra, Super Brain: Unleashing the explosive power of your mind to maximize health, happiness and spiritual well-being