The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

Governments have tried to stop crime through punishment throughout the ages, but crime continued in the past punishment remains. Crime can only be stopped through a preventive approach in the schools. You teach the students Transcendental Meditation, and right away they'll begin using their full brain physiology sensible and they will not get sidetracked into wrong things.

If world peace is to be established, peace in the individual must be established first. Transcendental Meditation directly brings peace in the individual life.

Decide what you want and don't think of the intermediary conditions. When Nature works for us we should want what we want and Nature will work it out for us.

We must take situations as they are. We must only change our mental attitudes towards them.

Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.

The experience of happiness is a direct means of replenishing life energy and revitalizing the mind.