Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes
Sincerity is a soul quality that God has given to every human being, but not all express it.
God made us angels of energy, encased in solids - currents of life dazzling through a material bulb of flesh.
Through Self-realization man becomes aware of true values as to his place in the divine plan and his relation to the past, present, and future of mankind.
Subtle astral colors... are hidden in everything around you. Could you but see, you would be amazed at their beauty.
One cannot tell when he is going to be healed, so do not try to set an exact time limit. Faith, not time, will determine when the cure will be effected.
You naturally love those who are dear to you, and you must learn to give that kind of love to the whole world.
Have the unflinching determination to move on your path unhampered by limiting thoughts of past errors.
In your heart must well that sympathy which soothes away all pains from the hearts of others.
When you know God as peace within, then you will realize Him as peace existing in the universal harmony of all things without.
Remember this: When I am gone, only love can take my place. Be absorbed night and day in the love of God, and give that love to all.
The Spirit of God, I realized, is exhaustless Bliss; His body is countless tissues of light.
To face death itself should not daunt you. Fear of death is ridiculous, because as long as you are not dead you are alive, and when you are dead there is noting more to worry about!
We don't become angels merely by the instrument of death. If we are angels now, we will be angels in the hereafter. If we are dark, negative personalities now, we will be the same after death.
With the opening of the New Year, all the closed portals of limitations will be thrown open and I shall move through them to vaster fields, where my worthwhile dreams of life will be fulfilled.
Great healers, people of divine realization, do not cure by chance but by exact knowledge.
Through love and sincerity continuously beautify your inner life in every way, by daily looking into the mirror of introspection.
You don't know what is going to come to you in this world; you have to go on living and worrying. Those who die are pitying us; they are blessing us. Why should you grieve for them?
Those who are socially inclined will find a new power to help humanity through the lessons of books written by noble and gifted people.
Love is the song of the soul singing to God. It is the balanced rhythmic dance of planets - sun and moon lit
Faithfulness in the performance of small duties gives us strength to adhere to difficult determinations that life will someday force us to make.
God is love. His plan for creation can only be rooted in love. Does not that simple thought, rather than erudite reasoning, offer solace to the human heart?
We do not always see the things that are nearest to us. We pass by riches that lie close at hand and chase after rainbows.
Forget your dream-born mortal weakness. Wake up and know that you and God are one.
Seek spiritual riches within. What you are is much greater than anyone or anything else you have ever yearned for.
Music that is saturated with soul force is the real universal music, understandable by all hearts.
Death is only an experience through which you are meant to learn a great lesson: you cannot die.
How you all will change the work after I am gone. If I came back a hundred years from now, I just wonder if I would even recognize it.
When you exercise your will power you release the power of life energy - not when you merely wish passively to be able to obtain an objective.
Trust in God and destroy fear, which paralyzes all efforts to succeed and attracts the very thing you fear.
Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself......
Feel body as luxury-- as a bird feels when shooting through the air, and as a child does always -- is health
Seeds of past karma cannot germinate if they are roasted in the fires of divine wisdom.
Today I forgive all those who have ever offended me. I give my love to all thirsty hearts both to those who love me and to those who do not love me.
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness thinking of others first . . . when you learn to live for others they will live for you.
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness thinking of others first... when you learn to live for others they will live for you.
The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.
My keen love of travel was seldom hindered by Father. He permitted me, even as a mere boy, to visit many cities and pilgrimage spots.