Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Quotes

Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live.

The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions.

Just watch babies. They're in a constant state of love. How could they possibly be so joyful? Because they're in harmony with the source. Some call that source God or soul or spirit or consciousness. They have no resistance to being joyful - unlike adults. You didn't come forth into this world to suffer, to be anxious, fearful or depressed. Remember, your thoughts, not your world, cause you stress. And you can change your thoughts.

I don't think... one get a flash of happiness once, and never again; it is there deep within you.

Peace of mind, joy and happiness cannot be purchased with money or worldly goods.

Joy is not dependent upon outward circumstances. Joy is something that we can have under all circumstances when we are sad or happy. Outward circumstances are always neutral. They seem to be happy or sad according to the happy or sad attitudes of the mind.

The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.

The joy of Being, which is the only true happiness, cannot come to you through any form, possession, achievement, person, or event - through anything that happens. That joy cannot come to you - ever. It emanates from the formless dimension within you, from consciousness itself and thus is one with who you are.

Outward Peace is useless without inner Peace

Let my Peace which passes all understanding infill and enfold you, for when you are at Peace within, you reflect Peace without, and all those souls you meet will feel that Peace.

Authentic happiness is not linked to an activity, it is a state of being.

The only test of a soul's salvation is its inward happiness.

From the greatest to the smallest, happiness and usefulness are largely found in the same soul, and the joy of life is won in its deepest and truest sense only by those who have not shirked life's burdens.

His is a joy which consequences cannot quench. His is a peace which circumstances cannot steal.

Humility, however deep it be, neither disquiets nor troubles nor disturbs the soul; it is accompanied by peace, joy and tranquillity.

The peace of the world concerns only body and time but the peace, the joy, that Christ gives enriches the soul for eternity

Those who run after happiness will never be happy. Happiness is something that has to come to the fore from within.

If you're looking for happiness in things, you'll never find it.

Faith gives us living joy and dying rest.

No matter what you are doing, keep the undercurrent of happiness. Learn to be secretly happy within your heart in spite of all circumstances.

Life will only make sense; and can only produce long-term happiness, peace and joy when embraced from the perspective of the soul.

you already possess all you need to be genuinely happy.

Most true happiness comes from one's inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul.

Yet, know this if you understand nothing else: You have a right to your joy; children or no children; spouse or no spouse. Seek it! Find it! And you will have a joyful family, no matter how much money you make or don't make. And if they aren't joyful, and they get up and leave you, then release them with love to seek their joy.

You are without needs. There is nothing that you need in order to be perfectly happy. You only think that there is. Your deepest, most perfect happiness will be found within, and once you find it, nothing exterior to your Self can match it, nor can anything destroy it.