Top 228 Quotes & Sayings by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi - Page 3

With the practice of deep meditation the mind contacts the Bliss Consciousness of the Spirit and becomes more peaceful, happy, creative and powerful. This state of mind enriches all values of material life.

When the mind is opening to that unbounded pure awareness, the field of pure intelligence, simultaneously the body is losing stresses and strains, and thereby the clouds that were hindering the use of inner full creative intelligence in action, they begin to wither away.

The state of least excitation of consciousness is the field of all possibilities.

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.

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.

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

They think democracy - I used to say "damn the democracy", because it's not a stable government.

Like the air, God's Grace is available to us. It is permeating every fibre of Being and the Being of the entire universe. When we take our attention to that Being, finer than the finest, then we establish ourselves on the level of God's Grace. Immediately we just enjoy. Life is Bliss!

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

It is the purity of man's heart and mind, and his innocent and faithful approach to action with the purpose of all good to everyone, which really succeeds in yielding maximum results with minimum effort.

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

Meditation makes the man Divine and brings the Divine to the world of man.

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.

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.

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.

The story of Love is the story of Love of Self.

There is time in life for everything.

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

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

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.

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

Rest and activity are the steps of progress.

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.

Success in anything is through happiness.

You are the master of all the laws of nature if you know the transcendental field.

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

About humility we speak with an analogy: When the branches are full of fruit, they just bow down.

What you put your attention on grows strong in your life.

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.

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.

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.

Life is not a struggle, not a tension. Life has not to be suffering. Life is bliss

Be as delicate as possible. If communication accomplishes something on the gross but damages something on the level of feeling then it is a spiritual loss! The feeling is more important for life.

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

Alloted duty means you should live full potentiality with which you are born.

On the platform of reality, on the platform of oneness of life, all differences dissolve.

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

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?

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.

The whole effect of activity is to enrich the feeling of the other.

When you are appreciating creation as much as the Creator, then the Creator will ask, 'Who is appreciating my creation as much as me. Let me see this person.'

We are not responding to this instant if we are judging any aspect of it.

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

Meditation is the best means of elongating life

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

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

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

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.

Through Transcendental Meditation, the human brain can experience that level of intelligence which is an ocean of all knowledge, energy, intelligence, and bliss.

All freedom to man, but freedom is useful when we know what life is, when we know what past is, what present is, when we know how to go about things, not that every man should be left to experiment by himself.

Meditation is the direct means of eradicating the very cause of the majority of diseases, both mental and physical.

Consciousness in the individual is that area where the totality of life is located.

We have been impossible right from the beginning and we must continue to be impossible because we are raising a voice against suffering which has been considered to be the nature of life. It is our joy to be considered impossible - and it is our greater joy to make the impossible a living reality.

The basic fundamental of behaviour should be to give.

Adopt the standard of perfection, because it is a perfect universe.

There is nothing in life to take seriously except the joy of life.

Sleep in the bliss of God.

One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.

Experience shows that Being is the essential, basic nature of the mind; but, since It commonly remains in tune with the senses projecting outwards toward the manifested realms of creation, the mind misses or fails to appreciate its own essential nature, just as the eyes are unable to see themselves.

Let the standard of everybody's mind be raised to the heights of his own inner glory and then man will feel for himself the greatness of the higher values of life and would be tempted to bring them down into practical life and live them.