Quotes from Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

It is the focus on the highest ideal day after day that saves life from being wrapped up in small whirlwinds.

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.

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

Balance is the natural state of life, because the basic characteristic of the fundamental element of life, pure consciousness, is complete balance.

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.

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

To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.

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.

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

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

Meditation is the best means of elongating life

There is time in life for everything.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The secret of success is conviction and persistence.

Success in anything is through happiness.

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

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

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