Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Quotes

The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects.

People into hard sciences, neurophysiology, often ignore a core philosophical question: 'What is the relationship between our unique, inner experience of conscious awareness and material substance?' The answer is: We don't know, and some people are so terrified to say, 'I don't know.'

One's head is finite. You pour more and more things into it - surnames, chronologies, affiliations - and it packs them away in its tunnels, and eventually you find that you have a book about something that you publish.

We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making.

Thought once awakened does not again slumber.

Do not offer the child the content of the mind, but the order for that content.

Your mind is a cupboard and you stock the shelves.

You've got to have models in your head and you've got to array you experience - both vicarious and direct - onto this latticework of mental models.

The mind itself is an art object. It is a Mondrian canvas onto whose homemade grids it fits its own preselected products. Our knowledge is contextual and only contextual. Ordering and invention coincide: we call their collaboration knowledge.

Consciousness regulates and becomes the flow of energy and information in your body, your relationships, and your world.

In any given moment we are either practicing mindfulness, or defacto, we are practicing mindlessness.

Pain and pleasure occur in consciousness and exist only there

Whatever we know without inference is mental.

The Same organizing forces that have shaped nature in all her forms are also responsible for the structure of our minds.

Intelligence is a measure of how well you function within your level of awareness.

If it is mind that we are searching the brain, then we are supposing the brain to be much more than a telephone-exchange. We are supposing it to be a telephone-exchange along with subscribers as well.

it is in our minds that we live much of our life.

To be is to be perceived

The imagination is an organ of understanding. And the imagination needs all the faculties at hand, all the sensibility, all the conscious and unconscious intelligence it can galvanize to fulfill its luminous mission.

I'm not interested in anybody's guilt. Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford. I know you didn't do it, and I didn't do it either, but I am responsible for it because I am a man and a citizen of this country and you are responsible for it, too, for the very same reason... Anyone who is trying to be conscious must begin to dismiss the vocabulary which we've used so long to cover it up, to lie about the way things are.

At any moment in time, our reality is based on whatever we focus on.

That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.

What is needed is not a change of circumstance, but a change of consciousness.

The ascription of an unconscious intentional phenomenon to a system implies that the phenomenon is in principle accessible to consciousness.

The mind, in discovering truths, acts in the same manner as it acts through the eye in discovering objects; when once any object has been seen, it is impossible to put the mind back to the same condition it was in before it saw it.