Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“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.”

“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 will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.”

“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.”

“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.”

“To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“Behaviour arises from the level of one's consciousness.”

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

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

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

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