Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Quotes & Sayings

There is time in life for everything. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

When the elephant decides to walk through the village, all the dogs come out and bark. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

It's as if we live in a house which has a vast treasury in one of its rooms. Only we've forgotten about it. So, instead of living a life of royalty, we go about in poverty. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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

Integrated is the expression of knowledge: an assembly is significant in Unity: united are their minds in the silent dynamism of all possibilities. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

If a man is able to submit himself to nature, then nature will react to his needs. Almighty nature is all powerful and all loving, for the laws of nature are for the creation and evolution of all beings and creatures throughout the cosmos. There is no greater kindness than the kindness of nature. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Life is here to Enjoy! — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

See the job, do the job, stay out of the misery. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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? — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

If you want to pay off your debts, it pays to increase your earning power. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The power of light is always bigger than the power of darkness. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The ego searches for shortcomings and weaknesses. Love watches for any sign of strength. It sees how far each one has come and not how far he has to go. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

If we are all strong, stable, we can set our sail with any wind in the world that comes along. We make up our own direction. If we are not strong, we are like a leaf in the wind and the world's winds will take us where they wish, not where we wish. So we meditate, every day, regularly, and gain transcendental being in our everyday life and then we are strong. When we are all infused with Being, we need not think which course is right, we just take the one that is automatically. Being is the wind-resister and the sail-setter ... — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Master of the universe is every man's potential insight, cosmic potential. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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 — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The highest state is laughter. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

We are not satisfied with peace alone. There has to be prosperity, there has to be affluence, there has to be fulfillment in life, not just peace. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Like the hollow nothingness within the seed of a tree, which contains the potential of the entire tree, the experience of nothingness in the unmanifest field has within it the lively potential of everything in creation. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

My coherence-creating groups are going to put out all this mischief-mongership in the world. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Consciousness in the individual is that area where the totality of life is located. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The flower of life blooms in love and radiates love all around it. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

When the mind is attuned to the cosmic law, all the laws of nature are in perfect harmony with the aspirations of the mind. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The goal of the Transcendental Meditation technique is the state of enlightenment. This means we experience that inner calmness, that quiet state of least excitation, even when we are dynamically busy. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The secret of success is conviction and persistence. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

You must learn to take life less seriously and to laugh. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

If one is not happy, one has lost the very purpose of life ... — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

In the field of knowledge is all possibility. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

That great, mighty current of evolution which is advancing the life of everything in creation is simply invincible - no one can resist it. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

When we think of failure; failure will be ours. If we remain undecided nothing will ever change. All we need to do is want to achieve something great and then simply to do it. Never think of failure, for what we think, will come about. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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

As brain functioning becomes more and more integrated, consciousness - the mind - becomes more and more invincible, and then any dictate of the mind is immediately followed by the body. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The story of Love is the story of Love of Self. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

If you're too busy to meditate twice a day, you're just too busy. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Bliss becomes blissful with practice. In our own bliss the desire, desirer and process of desiring are united - they are one. Desire is fulfilled at its source. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Adopt the standard of perfection, because it is a perfect universe. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The most effective teachers embody the teaching they give out. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Human concepts, no matter how grand they may appear, have limitations. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Being is the basis of thinking, thinking is the basis of action, action is the basis of achievement and achievement is the basis of fulfillment. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

There is nothing difficult, there is nothing complicated, only one has to have a desire to have a better quality of life. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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

Meditation is the straight flight of the mind to the Kingdom of Heaven present in the heart of everyone. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The world has witnessed the rise and fall of monarchy, the rise and fall of dictatorship, the rise and fall of feudalism, the rise and fall of communism, and the rise of democracy; and now we are witnessing the fall of democracy ... the theme of the evolution of life continues, sweeping away with it all that does not blossom into perfection. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Behaviour arises from the level of one's consciousness. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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

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. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

You are the master of all the laws of nature if you know the transcendental field. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

No action can be performed successfully without a clear result in view. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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

The Self of everyone, the Atma of everyone, the transcendental field of reality of everyone, is the same in everyone. Whether the body calls itself an American, German, Indian or Chinese, it doesn't matter. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Problems are all in your head. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

If you believe in light, you'll be in light, you don't have to face darkness. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Do not fight the darkness, let the light in and the darkness will disappear. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

By enlivening this most basic level of life, Transcendental Meditation is that one simple procedure which can raise the life of every individual and every society to its full dignity, in which problems are absent and perfect health, happiness, and a rapid pace of progress are the natural features of life. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

We do not think of life - we live it. We do not think of ourselves too much. We do not think of others too much ... We just behave in a natural way. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

1-Don't analyze. 2-Don't complain. 3-Don't compare yourself to others. 4-Don't expect things to be done for you. 5-Don't expect perfection in the relative. 6-Look to the knowledge aspect daily. 7-Own the movement. 8-Problems are all in your head. 9-Hold yourself together. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Perfect health means no weakness anywhere, that is no weakness should remain in the body, or in the mind, or in the relationship between the body and the mind. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The purpose of speech is to enliven the bliss in others. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Surround yourself with those who are moving very quickly towards Unity. Be in the presence of those who are running forward. Besides the knowledge the Veda, the greatest thing we can do is be surrounded by those who are living and seeking the highest value of life, Brahmi Chetana. This is why yogic flying with groups is so much greater than flying alone. To live and work with others who are moving and aspiring fast towards Unity consciousness is the great force to help you achieve Unity. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The secret of success in business is creativity. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities. Its nature is to expand and unfold its full potential. The impulse to evolve is thus inherent in the very nature of life. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

On the platform of reality, on the platform of oneness of life, all differences dissolve. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Problems are not solved on the level of problems. Analyzing a problem to find its solution is like trying to restore freshness to a leaf by treating the leaf itself, whereas the solution lies in watering the root. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Personal love is concentrated universal love. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The habit of quietly absorbing the shocks will be quite a great help to stabilize pure awareness.
The technique is: Just feel not disturbed.
The disturbing influence could be a blessing of Mother Nature to develop the habit to make
best use out of every situation.
Every situation is God Sent. With this supreme wisdom of life any situation can be used
to our advantage and regarded as a blessing of Mother Nature. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The genius of man is hidden in the silent, settled state of mind from where every thought emerges. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Unless an action is rightly thought out and its steps rightly planned, every stage of its performance will probably remain vague and therefore unsatisfactory for the doer and all those concerned. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Just as a mountain of snow is nothing but water, so also the whole universe is nothing but bliss. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

What makes one luckier is the good that he has done to others. It comes back to him. A man doesn't become lucky by doing wrong. He becomes lucky because he has done good to others and that good comes back to him. And now he is lucky. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Inner life is Divine. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Love knows that nothing is ever needed but more love. It is what we all do with our hearts that affects others most deeply. It is not the movements of our body or the words within our minds that transmit love. We love from heart to heart. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension ... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

When the conscious mind expands to embrace deeper levels of thinking, the thought wave becomes more powerful and results in added energy and intelligence. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Just think of any negativity that comes at you as a raindrop falling into the ocean of your bliss. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Art really has its source in the transcendent, the unmanifest field of pure consciousness, which is the non-changing, immortal field of all possibilities ... When the awareness of the artist is in tune with this center of infinite creativity, his piece of art breathes fullness of life, nourishes the creator, the artist, and inspires his admirers with waves of bliss. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

I want to eliminate the basis of problems and basis of crime, and basis of terrorism. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Meditation is a glorious link to connect and harmonize the two ends of life - material and spiritual. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don't see it. It is within you. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The basic fundamental of behaviour should be to give. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Meditation is the best means of elongating life — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Hard labour to succeed in the world? Hard labour no, no, human constitution, human physiology, human intelligence is made of infinite creative potential of Natural Law and therefore no-one has to work hard for success. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

My University of Management will create managers who will float in happiness, success and fulfillment. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The dignity of a woman's life is infinite, her status immeasurable, her capacity unbounded, her role divine ... In the fast changing world of today her vision penetrates into the reality of the far beyond, the reality which endures beyond change. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi