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47 Transcendental Meditation Quotes by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was a spiritual guru who developed the famous Transcendental Meditation technique. His organization grew very quickly and was transformed into a powerfulr spiritual movement. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was a disciple of Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, the spiritual leader of Jyotirmath in the Himalayas. In the 60s and 70s, Maharishi became famous as the guru to The Beatles.

Maharishi was reported to have promoted more than 40,000 teachers of transcendental meditation. These, in turn, have taught his technique to more than five million people.

Here are some of its quotes about Transcendental Meditation and related subjects:

If we are able to meet these two requirements – regularity in meditation and leading a good life in society, day-to-day a good life – then nothing would be unattainable by us.

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness

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

Fulfilment is structured in achievement, Achievement is structured in action, Action is structured in thinking, Thinking is structured in knowledge, Knowledge is structured in consciousness.

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

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.

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

Transcendental Meditation opens the awareness to the infinite reservoir of energy, creativity, and intelligence that lies deep within everyone.

If we think of defeat, that is what we will get. If we are undecided, nothing will happen to us. We must just pick something great to do and do it. Never do we think of failure at all, for as we think now, that is what we will get.

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.

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.

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

Responsibility can never be given. It can only be taken.

The secret of success is conviction and persistence.

What makes one luckier is the good that he has done to others. It comes back to him. A man doesn’t become lucky by doing wrong. He becomes lucky because he has done good to others and that good comes back to him. And now he is lucky.

No action can be performed successfully without a clear result in view.

The fortunate one uses the instrument of meditation and probes deep into his heart. Then the waves of love gain the depth of the ocean, and the ocean of love flows and fills the heart and thrills every particle of being. Every wave of life then flows in the fullness of love, in the fullness of divine glory, in the fullness of grace, in bliss and peace.

Don’t go for what you know you can get. Go for what you really want.

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

What we have been saying from the beginning of the movement has been unbelievable but it has come to be believed. 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 secret of success in business is creativity. The urgent need in business today is to develop the field of creativity that lies deep within each individual. Through Transcendental Meditation the awareness of the individual comes into contact with this field of unlimited creativity, pure consciousness, the Constitution of the Universe.

Meditate and enjoy.

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.

Love opens all doors, no matter how closed they may be, no matter how rusty from lack of use. Your work is to bring unity and harmony, to open all doors which have been closed for a long time. Have patience and tolerance. Open your heart all the time.

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.

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.

If world peace is to be established, peace in the individual must be established first. Transcendental Meditation directly brings peace in the individual life.

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 practice of Transcendental Meditation creates a natural situation in the mind so that the mind entertains right thoughts, useful thoughts, thoughts that are cherished by nature and whose fulfillment is worked out by all the laws of nature.

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.

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

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

We are born only to bless, not to punish. This you should never forget. We should always see good things in others – very important. We are not in a position to criticize anyone. The existence of enemies means for us that our friendliness has not been sufficient enough. ‘God helps those who help themselves.’ – it’s a very true saying. We are aware of darkness but for our own community we want to have Enlightenment.

Attend to your own inner-health and happiness.

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.’

Nine rules of life: Don’t analyze. Don’t complain. Don’t compare yourself to others. Don’t expect things to be done for you. Don’t expect perfection in the relative. Look to the knowledge aspect daily. Own the movement. Problems are all in your head. Hold yourself together.

So transcendental meditation brings about transcendental consciousness, which is self-referral consciousness, the source of all intelligence.

If we are all strong, stable, we can set our sail with any wind in the world that comes along. We make up our own direction. If we are not strong, we are like a leaf in the wind and the world’s winds will take us where they wish, not where WE wish. So we meditate, every day, regularly, and gain transcendental being in our everyday life and then we are strong. When we are all infused with Being, we need not think which course is right, we just take the one that is automatically. Being is the wind-resister and the sail-setter.

Enjoy your life and be happy. Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness. More support of nature comes from being happy.
Under all circumstances be happy, even if you have to force it a bit to change some long standing habits.

Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower, and draws all good things toward you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after the needs of life. It is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally and effortlessly. Life is here to Enjoy!

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.

Meditation is the sharp tool to dig out the great treasure hidden within everybody’s inner personality.

Meditation is the straight flight of the mind to the Kingdom of Heaven present in the heart of everyone.

In meditation we research the field without time and space and activity, and yet produce a useful effect while conducting the research.

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

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Meher Baba Quotes

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Meher Baba was an Indian spiritual guru and teacher. He was born in 1894 in Pune, India to Zoroastrian parents. At the age of 19, he began a seven-year spiritual transformation. During this time he contacted five spiritual masters before beginning his own mission and gathering his own disciples in early 1922, at the age of 27.

Here are some Meher Baba quotes that I love the most. Enjoy!

Meher Baba Quotes:

When you paint, you forget everything except your object. When you are too much engrossed in it, you are lost in it. And when you are lost in it, your ego diminishes. And when the ego diminishes, love infinite appears.


God is love. And Love must love. And to love there must be a Beloved.
But since God is Existence infinite and eternal there is no one for Him to love but Himself.

And in order to love Himself, He must imagine Himself as the Beloved whom He
as the lover imagines He loves.

Beloved and lover implies separation.

And separation creates longing; and longing causes search.
And the wider and the more intense the search, the greater the separation and the more terrible the longing.
When longing is at it’s most intense, separation is complete, and the purpose of separation, which was
that love might experience itself as lover and Beloved,
is fulfilled; and union follows.

And when union is attained, the lover knows that he himself was all along the Beloved, whom he loved and desired union with;
and that all the impossible situations that he overcame were obstacles which he himself had placed in the path to himself.

To attain union is so impossibly difficult because it is impossible to become what you already are!
Union is nothing other than knowledge of oneself as the Only One.

 


Once you open your wings to fly, you must fly straight like the swan. Do not flit from tree to tree like the sparrow, or many things will distract you on the way, and the journey is long.


People must give and then receive. First give and then you will have all. But instead, people want to first have all and then think of giving. This is not the right way.


Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others. Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. So learn to love and give, and not to expect anything from others.


When nothing upsets you, you are at the beginning of the path. When you desire nothing, you are halfway on the path; when nothing becomes everything, you are perfected.


Since male and female incarnations are equally necessary for Self-knowledge, it is not right to look upon one as being more important than the other. Though there are differences between the nature of the respective facilities afforded by them, they are both indispensable. The soul must go through male incarnations as well as female incarnations if it is to have that richness of experience which is a condition of attaining the realization that the soul, in itself, is beyond all forms of duality — including the accentuated duality based on sex.


Only God is real, and everything else is a mere motion picture!


Cease the mental tension. Train your mind to pass over thoughts. Do not give countenance to them until such time that you can surrender the mind itself. No one is doing it. When the mind is surrendered, there is no question of happiness or unhappiness. Because of the thoughts of the past lives, sanskaras are spent away. They come and go. Pay no attention to them. Mind is like a wound-up alarm clock. It will ring at the appointed time, but only so long as the winding is there. Let it ring and run its course, but take care not to wind it again by indulging in bad actions.


One of the most difficult things to learn is to render service without bossing, without making a fuss about it, and without any consciousness of high and low. In the world of spirituality, humility counts at least as much as utility.


Be pure and simple, and love all because all are one. Live a sincere life; be natural, and be honest with yourself.
Honesty will guard you against false modesty and will give you the strength of true humility. Spare no pains to help others. Seek no other reward than the gift of Divine Love.


The seeker asking, Where is God? Is really God saying, Where indeed is the seeker!


Before he can know Who he is, man has to unlearn the mass of illusory knowledge he has burdened himself with on the interminable journey from unconsciousness to consciousness. It is only through love that you can begin to unlearn, and, eventually, put an end to all that you do not know. God-love penetrates all illusion, while no amount of illusion can dim God-love. Start by learning to love God by beginning to love those whom you cannot. You will find that in serving others you are serving yourself. The more you remember others with kindness and generosity, the less you remember yourself; and when you completely forget yourself, you find me as the Source of all Love.


Love God and find him within – the only treasure worth finding.


The experiences are so innumerable and varied, that the journey appears to be interminable and the Destination is ever out of sight. But the wonder of it is, when at last you reach your Destination you find that you had never traveled at all! It was a journey from here to Here.


A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.


Desire nothing except desirelessness.
Hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes.
Want nothing and you will have everything.


Divine love makes us true to ourselves and to others…
Divine love is the solution to our difficulties and problems.
It frees us from every kind of binding.
It makes us speak truly, think truly, and act truly.
It makes us feel one with the whole universe.
Divine love purifies our hearts and glorifies our being.


Truth is simple, but Illusion makes it infinitely intricate. The person is rare who possesses an insatiable longing for Truth; the rest allow Illusion to bind them ever more and more.


Suffering is essential for the elimination of the ego, just as it was necessary for you to scrub and scrub in order to wash the stain from my coat.


Though the eye is small, the soul which sees through it is greater and vaster than all the things which it perceives. In fact, it is so great that it includes all objects, however large or numerous, within itself. For it is not so much that you are within the cosmos as that the cosmos is within you.


There are very few things in the mind which eat up as much energy as worry. It is one of the most difficult things not to worry about anything. Worry is experienced when things go wrong, but in relation to past happenings it is idle merely to wish that they might have been otherwise. The frozen past is what it is, and no amount of worrying is going to make it other than what it has been. But the limited ego-mind identifies itself with its past, gets entangled with it and keeps alive the pangs of frustrated desires.

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Inspiring Quotes About Love

loveLove! No words can describe it. Nothing to be said. Just enjoy these motivational quotes:

We are members of a vast cosmic orchestra in which each living instrument is essential to the complementary and harmonious playing of the whole.

J. Allen Boone


Where there is love there is life.

Mahatma Gandhi


Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

Mother Teresa


The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

Audrey Hepburn


We are born of love; Love is our mother.

Rumi


Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.

Jim Morrison


We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

Friedrich Nietzsche


To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

David Viscott


Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Blaise Pascal


Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao Tzu


I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Martin Luther King, Jr.


Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’

Erich Fromm


Love isn’t something you find. Love is something that finds you.

Loretta Young


Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery


A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.

Max Muller


Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

Theodor Adorno


A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

Jesus Christ


Love has to spring spontaneously from within
And it is no way amenable to any form of inner or outer force.
Love and coercion can never go together;
But though love cannot be forced on anyone,
It can be awakened in him through love itself.
Love is essentially self communicative;
Those who do not have it catch it from those who have it.
True love is unconquerable and irresistible,
And it goes on gathering power and spreading itself,
Until eventually it transforms everyone whom it touches….

Meher Baba


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