Top 100 Maharishi Quotes
#1. You as a salt-being, made of salt, go to fathom the depth of the ocean, and in the process you yourself dissolve. A great maharishi once said that true meditation is like this.
Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
#2. I meditate and I also think about meditation. Which is funny. I think about Maharishi, about just the idea of meditating. It gives me something.
Brian Wilson
#3. India brings out so many different feelings in me. I've been fascinated with India and Indian culture as long as I can remember - ever since the '60s with the Beatles and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Joe Perry
#4. Once, when we were discussing a world peace project with my teacher, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, somebody asked him, Where is all the money going to come from? And he replied without hesitation, From wherever it is at the moment.
Deepak Chopra
#5. On the surface, rock and roll changes at an amazing pace. The influence of a figure like the Maharishi can appear and disappear in a matter of months. Talk about old fashioned rock and roll finds itself dead before it begins.
Jon Landau
#6. I did not become great by association of The Beatles! Beatles make Maharishi great? Pah! It is a waste of thought.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#7. It was in 1967, and I was on a spiritual pilgrimage to India to study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. That was before the Beatles saw him, by the way, when not too many people knew of him. Anyway, I visited the Taj and noticed its wonderful sound.
Paul Horn
#8. By 1968, both The Beatles and The Beach Boys had plenty of fame - we were looking for something deeper. The Maharishi taught us how to go beyond thinking and action in order to grow from within.
Mike Love
#9. I can see where influential people would like Maharishi better than Jesus. My God, if the Beatles and Mia Farrow went to Jesus, He'd tell them to give all their money away.
Kurt Vonnegut
#11. 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.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#12. About humility we speak with an analogy: When the branches are full of fruit, they just bow down.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#15. Meditation is a glorious link to connect and harmonize the two ends of life - material and spiritual.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#16. Divine is all Love in its essential nature, and Love is all Divine in its truthful expression.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#18. 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
#19. 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
#21. The process of education takes place in the field of consciousness; the prerequisite to complete education is therefore the full development of consciousness - enlightenment. Knowledge is not the basis of enlightenment, enlightenment is the basis of knowledge.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#22. 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
#23. 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.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#24. Love is universal and freely given, yet the ego insists that it be owned, that it obey the ego's stern dictates of when, how and where. In this, the ego will forever fail, for it is fighting the wrong battle. Love can never be limited or exist in separation or isolation.
Maharishi Sadasiva Isham
#25. Love heals: there is no infirmity of body, mind, heart or soul that can withstand unconditional love.
Maharishi Sadasiva Isham
#26. The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#27. 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
#28. Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#31. Meditation is the sharp tool to dig out the great treasure hidden within everybody's inner personality.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#32. 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
#34. There is nothing in the cosmos, either in the material plane or the spiritual plane which cannot be directly cognized.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#35. 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
#38. 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
#39. 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.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#41. Naturalness is the basis of effectiveness. If one poses to be something else, one loses the charm of naturalness. The result is that one accumulates stress.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#42. They think democracy
I used to say damn the democracy, because it's not a stable government.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#44. 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
#46. We effect more than we can possibly know. With every mood, every thought, every word, every gesture, we change our lives and our universe.
Maharishi Sadasiva Isham
#47. God grants us the faculty to open ourselves to peace. If we don't then we are responsible if wars continue.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#49. 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.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#50. 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
#52. 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
#53. If you are open with someone, he will be open with you. If you want love from someone, give your love to him. If you want kind and sympathetic behavior from someone, be kind and sympathetic to him ...
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#54. 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
#56. Through Transcendental Meditation, the human brain can
experience that level of intelligence which is an ocean of all
knowledge, energy, intelligence, and bliss.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#58. 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.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#59. TM in the a.m. and the p.m ... 20 minutes in the bank, all day in the market place.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#60. Meditation is the direct means of enjoying the greatest happiness and is the only means to quench the thirst for happiness on earth.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#63. From tiny, tiny waves of joy, one gets to the ocean of happiness, which is called bliss.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#64. 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
#70. People are influenced by what we are, what we radiate. This has greater appeal than what we say.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#72. 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
#73. I let people make remarks about me, but it doesn't touch me, all those remarks.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#75. 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
#76. 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
#78. The state of least excitation of consciousness is the field of all possibilities.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#79. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#86. All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#89. Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#90. 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
#91. Meditation is the means through which the Soul dictates and guides the mind for all good.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#92. 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
#95. Monks are not expected to speak about themselves; the message is important, not the person.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#97. 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
#100. 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
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