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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was an Indian-born spiritual teacher and yoga master, born on January 12, 1918, and died on February 5, 2008. He is known for his contributions to the science of transcendental consciousness and the popularization of meditation techniques.

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“The process of education takes place in the field of consciousness; the prerequisite to complete education is therefore the full development of consciousness - enlightenment. Knowledge is not the basis of enlightenment, enlightenment is the basis of knowledge.”

Process Consciousness Fields Development Enlightenment Bases Prerequisites

Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“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.”

Tree Creation Fields Seeds Nothingness Hollow Lively

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“In meditation we research the field without time and space and activity, and yet produce a useful effect while conducting the research.”

Space Meditation Effects Fields Produce Activity Research Time And Space Conducting

Book:Thirty Years Around the World: 1957-1964

Source: Thirty Years Around the World: 1957-1964

“A new humanity will be born, fuller in conception and richer in experience and accomplishments in all fields. Joy of life will belong to every man, love will dominate human society, truth and virtue will reign in the world, peace on earth will be permanent and all will live in fulfillment in fullness of life in God Consciousness.”

Source: The Science of Being and Art of Living

“Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities. Its nature is to expand and unfold its full potential. The impulse to evolve is thus inherent in the very nature of life.”

Life Consciousness Fields Possibility Bases Evolve Impulse Inherent Full Potential

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“The state of least excitation of consciousness is the field of all possibilities.”

States Consciousness Fields Possibility Ballet

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“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.”

Helping Use Life Is Joy Energy Grows Enjoy Ability Our Lives Fields Evolution Speech Gains Our Time Worth It Joy Happiness Not Worth It

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“In the field of knowledge is all possibility.”

Fields Possibility

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“You are the master of all the laws of nature if you know the transcendental field.”

Ifs Knows Law Fields Masters Laws Of Nature Transcendental

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“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.”

Mind Culture Silence Creative Meditation Fields Activity Perception Research Stones Insight Gates Silence Is Decrease

Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“Life is bliss. It is unbounded, deep within; and it is full of boundaries outside. So we advise the people to turn the attention within, experience that unbounded wholeness of life, and bring the mind out fully saturated with that--start to live unboundedness in the field of boundaries.”

People Mind Life Is Turns Attention Fields Boundaries Bliss Wholeness Advise Deep Within Saturated

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“Art really has its source in the transcendent, the unmanifest field of pure consciousness, which is the non-changing, immortal field of all possibilities...When the awareness of the artist is in tune with this center of infinite creativity, his piece of art breathes fullness of life, nourishes the creator, the artist, and inspires his admirers with waves of bliss.”

“If a man can permanently establish his awareness in contact with that pure field (of consciousness), then problems wither away. It's a very simple thing. When the light comes, then where is the darkness?”

Ifs Men Problem Light Simple Consciousness Darkness Awareness Fields Pure Contact Simple Things

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“When the mind is opening to that unbounded pure awareness, the field of pure intelligence, simultaneously the body is losing stresses and strains, and thereby the clouds that were hindering the use of inner full creative intelligence in action, they begin to wither away.”

Mind Use Body Action Creative Awareness Fields Pure Losing Stress Clouds Opening Strain Creative Intelligence

Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“The Self of everyone, the Atma of everyone, the transcendental field of reality of everyone, is the same in everyone. Whether the body calls itself an American, German, Indian or Chinese, it doesn't matter.”

Self Matter Body Reality Fields Chinese Indian Transcendental

Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“The constitution of the universe is total natural law. 'Natural law,' we say from the field of science. 'Will of God,' we say from the field of religion. It's the same thing.”

Law Universe Natural Fields Constitution Gods Will Natural Law

Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

About the Author

Born: January 12, 1918
Died: February 5, 2008
Known for: Guru
Quotes: 222

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