Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Quotes

Professions:ArtistBusinessman

Born: January 12, 1917

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the visionary founder of Transcendental Meditation, profoundly expanded the boundaries of human creativity. His philosophy taught that the deepest reservoir of artistic inspiration lies not in effort, but in the silent, unbounded field of pure consciousness within. By quieting the mind, he argued, an artist taps into the infinite creative intelligence that orchestrates the universe. His legacy is a practical path to unlocking original thought, dissolving creative blocks, and infusing art with a profound, silent coherence. His quotes resonate because they promise not just a technique, but a direct experience of the source of all innovation.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Quotes (41)

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

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Topic: Wisdom

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

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Topic: Wisdom

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

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Topic: Resilience

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

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Topic: Wisdom

"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
Topic: Motivation

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

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Topic: Wisdom

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

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Topic: Motivation

"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
Topic: Wisdom

"Behaviour arises from the level of one's consciousness."

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Topic: Wisdom

"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."

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Topic: Wisdom

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

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Topic: Wisdom

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

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Topic: Wisdom

"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
Topic: Technology

"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
Topic: Motivation

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

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Topic: Wisdom

"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
Topic: Wisdom

"I tell people in Chicago to take care of themselves."

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Topic: Wisdom

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

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Topic: Wisdom

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

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Topic: Wisdom

"Managers are the most creative people in the world."

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Topic: Creativity

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

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Topic: Wisdom

"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."

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Topic: Wisdom

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

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Topic: Motivation

"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."

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Topic: Wisdom

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

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Topic: Wisdom

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

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Topic: Wisdom

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

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Topic: Motivation

"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
Topic: Wisdom

"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."

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Topic: Creativity

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

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Topic: Wisdom
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