Top 228 Quotes & Sayings by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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

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.

Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.

America is the most creative country and the most powerful government in the world.

Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.

The highest state is laughter.

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

Managers are the most creative people in the world.

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

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

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

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.

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

I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves.

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

The United States influences government and life everywhere else.

Master of the universe is every man's potential insight, cosmic potential.

Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.

In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.

The constitution of the universe is total natural law. 'Natural law,' we say from the field of science. 'Will of God,' we say from the field of religion. It's the same thing.

You must learn to take life less seriously and to laugh.

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

Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.

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

Individual potential of life is cosmic potential. Individual is divine deep inside. Transcendental experience awakens that divinity in man. And when you kill a man you deprive him of that birthright of it.

I want to eliminate the basis of problems and basis of crime, and basis of terrorism.

All world conflicts will be resolved if people listen to my advice.

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

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

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

Behaviour arises from the level of one's consciousness.

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

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.

The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

Transcendental meditation is something that can be defined as a means to do what one wants to do in a better way, a right way, for maximum results.

There is one unity, unified wholeness, total natural law, in the transcendental unified consciousness.

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

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.

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.

To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.

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

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.

Do not fight the darkness, let the light in and the darkness will disappear.

The whole purpose of life is to gain enlightenment. Nothing else is significant compared to that completely natural, exalted state of consciousness. So always strive for that. Set your life around that goal. Don't get caught up in small things, and then it will be yours.

Outside is the joy of the drop. Inside is the joy of the ocean.

It may take a little self-discipline - be simple, be kind, stay rested. Attend to your own inner-health and happiness.

All speech, action and behavior are fluctuations of consciousness. All life emerges from, and is sustained in, consciousness. The whole universe is the expression of consciousness. The reality of the universe is one unbounded ocean of consciousness in motion.

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

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

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.

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

We have an infinite number of reasons to be happy, and a serious responsibility not be serious.

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

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.

Don't worry about the situation of the world. You must be very happy, very very happy! Only through happiness and waves of bliss you will be able to help your country and the entire world in an automatic manner. You will remain ever invincible when you don't allow anything to obscure your happiness.

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

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

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.

Enjoy your life and be happy. Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness. More support of nature comes from being happy. Under all circumstances be happy, even if you have to force it a bit to change some long standing habits. 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. Be happy, healthy, and let all that love flow through your heart.

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