Great Throughts Treasury

"Inner life is Divine."

"Intend to have a better life. Just intention to have a more successful life. Think better."

"Integrated is the expression of knowledge: an assembly is significant in Unity: united are their minds in the silent dynamism of all possibilities."

"It is enough that we are naturally helpful to others. What others think of us is not our concern - it is their concern. If we are weak, we will always put ourselves at the whims of others. We do not base our lives on the opinions of others. But if we are not clear in our conscience, then we will always be weak and will always mind the looks and remarks of other people. It is important only that we radiate life. Every individual must be a joy to himself, to his family, and to his society."

"It is our joy to be considered impossible - and it is our greater joy to make the impossible a living reality."

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

"It is a great science of life which does not require hard work."

"It is right not to harm anyone and wrong to do harm. It is right to see good in others and wrong to see bad in anyone. It is right to love people and wrong to hate them. It is right to admire men for the good in them and wrong to rebuke them for their shortcomings and bad behavior. It is right to give advice to a man if he is doing wrong and wrong not to advise him to do good. It is right to do things which will be helpful to oneself and others and it is wrong to do things which will harm others. It is right to speak the truth but wrong to speak words which will harm others even if they are the truth. It is right to be good to others and wrong to be unpleasant to anyone."

"It may take a little self-discipline - be simple, be kind, stay rested. Attend to your own inner-health and happiness."

"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."

"It is the responsibility of the older generation to advise the young, to tell the child what is right and wrong. Even if they do not want to listen to follow our direction, it is right to tell them."

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

"It may take a little self-discipline, be simple, be kind, stay rested."

"Just behave in a natural way. Don't make moods . . . wondering what anyone thinks of us."

"Killing is sin in every religion."

"Keep your desire turning back within and be patient. Allow the fulfillment to come to you. Gently resist the temptation to chase your dreams into the world; pursue them in your heart until they disappear into the Self, and leave them there. It may take a little self-discipline, be simple, be kind, stay rested. Attend to your own inner-health and happiness. Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you. Allow your love to nourish yourself as well as others. Do not strain after your needs of life - it is sufficient to be quietly alert and aware of them. In this way life proceeds more naturally, effortlessly. Life is here to enjoy."

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

"Let the standard of everybody's mind be raised to the heights of his own inner glory and then man will feel for himself the greatness of the higher values of life and would be tempted to bring them down into practical life and live them."

"Life aspires to be lived on the level of abundance, on the level of affluence."

"Know what you want, decide when you want it, figure your plan of action, follow through on it, and never doubt."

"Life desires to be lived in the state of fulfillment."

"Life is bliss."

"Life is all business. Spend your energy to get joy, happiness, evolution, and to gain more ability to enjoy. In this field we spend our energy. We never use our time, energy, speech, or ability to do something that doesn't help us grow and improve our life. It's not worth it."

"Life is here to enjoy."

"Like the hollow nothingness within the seed of a tree, which contains the potential of the entire tree, the experience of nothingness in the unmanifest field has within it the lively potential of everything in creation."

"Love in the heart of man is a shrine to God on Earth."

"Like the air, God's Grace is available to us. It is permeating every fibre of Being and the Being of the entire universe. When we take our attention to that Being, finer than the finest, then we establish ourselves on the level of God's Grace. Immediately we just enjoy. Life is Bliss!"

"Maharishi's 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."

"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."

"Man is born to enjoy."

"Maturity develops as the awareness gains the ability to comprehend a larger field of experience. This growth of comprehension is an expression of the natural tendency of life, which is to grow and expand. Through the Transcendental Meditation Technique awareness expands to its unbounded value, and this unbounded awareness is a fully matured awareness."

"Meditate and enjoy."

"Meditation is making research into yourself, and into the subtler fields of activity. Day after day we culture our minds with the deep silence of our own Being. This is not the silence of a stone, but creative silence. We have to find it for ourselves. We decrease activity until silence becomes creative, and we sit in creative silence and close the gates of perception for insight into the content of life."

"More support of nature comes from being happy."

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

"My technique does not involve withdrawal from normal material life. It enhances the material values of life"

"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."

"Naturalness is the basis of effectiveness."

"Nature works in parallel ways."

"Nature knows best how to organize."

"Nature is favorable to our effort when human awareness is being established more and more in pure consciousness."

"Nature?s government spontaneously brings satisfaction to everyone because it promotes all innumerable, diverse tendencies of life in the evolutionary direction."

"Nature supports right action."

"Never think of failure at all, for as we think now, that's what we'll get."

"Never think of failure, for what we think will come about."

"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."

"No man engaged in the field of change should ever be allowed to remain there all the time. He should be given the opportunity, his body and mind should be cultured so that imperishable state of eternal Being permeates all these changing phenomena in the relative world."

"No one is responsible for giving any difficulty or any pleasure to anyone. - However, fathers are."

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

"One can be the master of one's own destiny if one follows the Vedic way of life, which is life according to natural law, which can prevent disorders."