Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Quotes

The highest state is laughter.

There is nothing in the cosmos, either in the material plane or the spiritual plane which cannot be directly cognized.

The flower of life blooms in love and radiates love all around it.

Divine is all Love in its essential nature, and Love is all Divine in its truthful expression.

Nature is favourable to our effort when human awareness is being established more and more in pure consciousness.

See the job, do the job, stay out of the misery.

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you.

Water the root to enjoy the fruit.

Meditation is making research into yourself, and into the subtler fields of activity. Day after day we culture our minds with the deep silence of our own Being. This is not the silence of a stone, but creative silence. We have to find it for ourselves. We decrease activity until silence becomes creative, and we sit in creative silence and close the gates of perception for insight into the content of life.

Nature supports right action.

Do not base your life on the likings and dislikings or whims of others. What you are in life - whether you enjoy or suffer - it is your own responsibility. Be regular in your meditation and do not postpone for a later date your striving for God consciousness.

What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.

God grants us the faculty to open ourselves to peace. If we don't then we are responsible if wars continue.

The search for total knowledge starts from the Self and finds its fulfillment in coming back to the Self, finding that everything is the expression of the Self - everything is the expression of my own Self.

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

'God helps those who help themselves.' - it's a very true saying.

A comfortable and regulated life is needed for fastest pace of evolution.

A loving heart, a heart full of love, is the precious essence of human life.

I did not become great by association of The Beatles! Beatles make Maharishi great? Pah! It is a waste of thought.

Fulfillment is structured in achievement, Achievement is structured in action, Action is structured in thinking, Thinking is structured in knowledge, Knowledge is structured in consciousness

Just think of any negativity that comes to you as a raindrop falling into the ocean of your bliss. You may not always have an ocean of bliss, but think that way anyway and it will help it come. Doubting is not blissful and does not create happiness.

Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And it can be taught very easily.

Life is bliss. It is unbounded, deep within; and it is full of boundaries outside. So we advise the people to turn the attention within, experience that unbounded wholeness of life, and bring the mind out fully saturated with that--start to live unboundedness in the field of boundaries.

The golden gate to peace in life is the experience of bliss, and it is easy for everyone to acquire this great glory and live it throughout life.

Meditation is the only means to the harmonious development of the body, mind and soul.

The practice of Transcendental Meditation creates a natural situation in the mind so that the mind entertains right thoughts, useful thoughts, thoughts that are cherished by nature and whose fulfillment is worked out by all the laws of nature.

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

People are influenced by what we are, what we radiate. This has greater appeal than what we say.

Be happy, healthy, and let all that love flow through your heart.

The fortunate one uses the instrument of deep meditation and probes deep into his heart. Then the waves of love gain the depth of the ocean, and the ocean of love flows and fills the heart and thrills every particle of being. Every wave of life then flows in the fullness of love, in the fullness of divine glory, in the fullness of grace, in bliss and peace.

That which comes slow comes solid.

Meditation is the most effective form of relaxation. It not only relaxes the body and mind but also feeds them with vital energy, peace and happiness.

Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.

The purpose of speech is to enliven the bliss in others.

Meditation is the sharp tool to dig out the great treasure hidden within everybody's inner personality.

Life is all business. Spend your energy to get joy, happiness, evolution, and to gain more ability to enjoy. In this field we spend our energy. We never use our time, energy, speech, or ability to do something that doesn't help us grow and improve our life. It's not worth it.

TM in the a.m. and the p.m....20 minutes in the bank, all day in the market place.

Meditation is a means to discover all the glories of the ocean of mind

I let people make remarks about me, but it doesn't touch me, all those remarks.

Knowledge is structured in consciousness

All problems in life arise from some weakness of mind. All weakness of mind is due to the mind's ignorance of its own essential nature, which is universal and the source of infinite energy and intelligence. ... In order to root out any problem of life it is only necessary to be brought out of ignorance, to be brought to knowledge.

Love opens all doors, no matter how tightly closed they may be, no matter how rusty from lack of use. Your work is to bring unity and harmony, to open all those doors which have been closed for a long time. Have patience and tolerance. Open your heart all the time.

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.

Meditation is a technique to integrate one's personality, to be able to live and enjoy full life of all glories - worldly and divine.

A new humanity will be born, fuller in conception and richer in experience and accomplishments in all fields. Joy of life will belong to every man, love will dominate human society, truth and virtue will reign in the world, peace on earth will be permanent and all will live in fulfillment in fullness of life in God Consciousness.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

If a man can permanently establish his awareness in contact with that pure field (of consciousness), then problems wither away. It's a very simple thing. When the light comes, then where is the darkness?

The nature of life is to grow.