Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Quotes

I try not to have too much of an ego. I'll do anything.

I pray for humility, honestly, because it's very easy to be caught up in this world.

I am someone without an ego.

... do not spare me in anything -- let there be less and less of me in everything.

The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth.

Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.

Humility is not thinking meanly of oneself, but rather it means not thinking of oneself at all.

The true mystic is always both humble and compassionate, for she knows that she does not know.

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about myself.

It's very nice to be in a show where your vanity is completely out of the picture.

I don't like talking about myself. I'm not really interested in myself. One of the good things about being a supporting actor is that you get to talk about other people.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

I don't want people to see me - I want them to see Jesus.

I never dwell on what I've personally achieved.

The world calls for, and expects from us, simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly and the poor, obedience and humility, detachment, and self-sacrifice. Without this mark of holiness, our word will have difficulty in touching the heart of modern man.

It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.

I think I was raised by a very humble mother, who, if anything, is probably over skeptical. She has that sense of everything being a bonus: like, you have your lot, and anything else is on top. She's quietly proud, and quietly humble.

A great man is always willing to be little.

The happiest ones are those who have a character which would prefer their services to be unknown to all generations.

I tell people all the time that it would be good if they forget about me next week, that they don't even mention my name anymore.

Humility is the forgetfulness of self.

Unconsciousness of self is not so much unselfishness as it is the mental ability to extinguish all thought of one's self - exactly as one turns out the light.

Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love.

Be grateful as your deeds become less and less associated with your name, as your feet ever more lightly tread the earth.

We should not feel pride in our charity, austerity, valour, scriptural knowledge, modestyandmorality for the world is full of the rarest gems.