Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Quotes

Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come.

On the vaporization and the centralization of the Self. All is there.

The ego is as you think of yourself. You in relation to all the commitments of your life, as you understand them. The self is the whole range of possibilities that you've never even thought of. And you're stuck with you're past when you're stuck with the ego. Because if all you know about yourself is what you found out about yourself, well, that already happened. The self is a whole field of potentialities to come through.

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

It's not about finding a home so much as finding yourself.

You'll always end up filling out a character. It might be with aspects of yourself.

To get what you want out of life, all you can really do is find out who you are, and do that.

What we earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

I wanted to do things that I knew were going to be me.

You're lucky if you find something that makes you feel like yourself; that's the one time that you feel like you know who you are. Most people are struggling to find that out all the time.

To transcend and be yourself... I have no reason to tell you, and others, something that is not of interest to you.

You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.

Find your true self. The old question, asked in many ages, "Who am I?" Once you figure out who am I, and you know who am I, then you have that knowledge of self.

I make myself up from everything I am, or could be. For many years I was more desire than fact. When I stop becoming, that’s when I worry.

Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important.

You are meant to understand the nature of your inner self, and to manifest it outward.

Be thou a true yogi. A yogi who understands that everything he's looking for is really inside himself. Learn to live more in the Self.

If you don't feel fabulous, you have deviated from the path of who-you-really-are.

I believe it is our own misperceptions of who we really are that leads to every self-created hell you'll find in this world.

The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality.

Wouldn't have no knowledge of wealth, without no knowledge of self.

Concepts vs. self-actualization. - Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, ACTUALIZE YOURSELF. The process of maturing does not mean to become a captive of conceptualization. It is to come to the realization of what lies in our innermost selves.

It takes time to understand yourself, to go inside yourself and to question yourself and really take yourself to task. That's self-expression.

Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self: in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes.