Goswami Kriyananda Quotes
Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.
If you want to do one good thing in the world, the best thing you can do is give other people joy.
Happiness is like a plant: It must be watered daily with giving thoughts and actions.
The "kingdom of heaven" to which he referred was the state of God-consciousness, not the beautiful astral heavens that most people visualize, where virtuous souls go after death.
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.
Even-minded and cheerful. When things go bad, you'll find that the same kind of attitude comes to you naturally.
Happiness is a question of attitude, not a question of what's happening out there.
Trust life, even if you cannot trust people. For human nature is unreliable, but life itself is ruled by immutable law. Right action leads always, in the end, to victory.
A deliberate attitude that you have to hold in your mind as one of the basic rules of yoga is to remain even-minded and cheerful.
The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.
Whatever you experience outwardly, take it within yourself and say 'I'm happy because I'm happy. I'm happy because God is in my heart.'
The mastery of any subject requires that one identify himself with the particular state of consciousness appropriate to that subject.
Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self- importance.
My master's visualizations were so powerful their condensation into matter was mere signature. Donald Walters, formerly Kriyananda, author of The Path about his guru Yogananda.
Society cannot but depend to a disproportionate degree on its capable few to develop and flourish.
If it (the good circumstances) changes will you be able to keep onto your happiness just as much? Because if not then your happiness is really built on sand.
The secret of friendship is expressing kindness with your eyes and through the tone of your voice, not only with words.
Realize that to have friends one must first be a friend. Make friendship a priority in your life.
Maturity is the ability to relate appropriately to other realities than one's own.
You can accept it that it may be true what somebody else says, but until you have experienced it, it is not dynamic to your own awareness.
Become more and more centered in the Self. To live more and more in the thought that God is here in your consciousness.
Master said if you want to be happy no one in the world can take happiness from you; if you want to be unhappy, no one in the world can make you happy. So choose to be happy.
The greatest thing that will please God is that you maintain an attitude of unshakable joy.
Your enemy is still yourself. You don't have enemies. They may be self-styled. I have plenty of self-styled enemies. I don't wish them harm.
It's not insincere to say you're happy if your determined to make it true and live in that consciousness.
Those who walk, run, or slide downhill eagerly would rather not think about the long, hard climb back up the hill again.
Learn to live more in the Self. Come down a little bit to eat and talk as necessary.
The two-fold goal of all human striving is the avoidance of pain, and the fulfillment of happiness.
The secret of success is doing things not merely because they are popular, but because you deeply believe in them.
Attachment is the state of ignorance or forgetfulness, and thus clinging to a memory of enjoyment
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