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By observing your addictive behaviors, you observe your conditioning. When you observe your conditioning, you're free of it, because you are not your conditioning you are the observer of your conditioning.

Deepak Chopra

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Deepak Chopra
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: October 22
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Motivational Speaker
Physician
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New Delhi district
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