Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Quotes

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

I wanted to be a complete person and realised that the well-being of mental health is extremely important in achieving that.

Depression and anxiety can't fit in your head if you're cultivating feelings of joy and inspiration.

When you gather up all the balls of life that you try to juggle, it is a very difficult thing to try to focus in on taking good care of yourself. But that's why God invented me - so I can come and teach and preach and make people laugh and give them some education so they can start liking themselves better.

I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.

You have to find balance. Whenever I start feeling stressed or not feeling myself, it's about balance, and it means I need to find it again.

I just want to stay happy and healthy in my mind.

I try to take my emotional pulse more now, to recognize when I need to go scream and cry for 20 minutes and then come back to center. Allowing yourself that time, it's a gift.

Be kind to yourself so you can be happy enough to be kind to the world.

One of the things that has changed my life - and this comes from someone who was highly self-critical and a type-A personality - is meditating. The simple act of making my brain shut off for 20 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes at night may not seem like much, but what ends up happening, besides creating space in your day, is your awake posture begins to replicate your meditative posture.

If we really prefer basic sanity or enlightenment, it's irritatingly possible to get into it.

I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.

I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now.

I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better.

If you nurture your mind, body, and spirit, your time will expand. You will gain a new perspective that will allow you to accomplish much more.

I meditate an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening. Once a year I go away for a long retreat. And overall, I just feel more comfortable in my own skin and less anxious, less sad, less fearful.

I think the solution to making this world better is if we would just be healthy, mentally.

It's all about balance and, I think, being in the moment.

I do have to take care of myself, not only because I'm in the movies, just for mental health reasons. I exercise for me. You know, maybe it would be nice to not have to do that in order to feel good, but I do. I feel like I have to, to feel good. To clear my head and all of that, so.

Jail was a result of me not taking time for myself. So I was forced to take some time for myself.

I try to keep away exterior events that are going to make me do something negative internally to myself.

You need a balance in life between dealing with what's going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.

A great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere.

In focusing towards the outer world, we celebs forget to focus on our inner well-being. We don't lead perfect lives, and only when we learn to have peace with our family members can we have peace in life.

I'm a real 'go, go' person... I'd make myself crazy by pushing too hard. It's important to pull pack the reins a little bit and get in touch with what's inside.