There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.

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The quote means that everyone has an important role to play in the world. Just like in a jigsaw puzzle, each piece is necessary to complete the full picture. Even though we may feel small or unimportant, we each have a special part to contribute to the big picture of life. We are all connected and need to work together to make the world a better place.

About Deepak Chopra

Deepak Chopra is an Indian-American author, new age guru, and alternative medicine advocate. He is a prominent figure in the New Age movement and his books and videos have made him one of the best-known and wealthiest figures in alternative medicine. Chopra studied medicine in India and later emigrated to the US, where he became a licensed physician and promoter of holistic approaches to well-being, including yoga, meditation, and nutrition.

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Deepak Chopra

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You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Deepak Chopra

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The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.

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Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.

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If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.

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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.

Deepak Chopra

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We’re living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it’s run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.

Deepak Chopra

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The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

Deepak Chopra

Indian-born American author and alternative-medicine advocate, physician and public speaker

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Deepak Chopra

Indian-born American author and alternative-medicine advocate, physician and public speaker

Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.

Deepak Chopra

Indian-born American author and alternative-medicine advocate, physician and public speaker

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.

Deepak Chopra

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It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.

Deepak Chopra

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