As you find your soul-reservoir of peace, less and less controversy will be able to afflict your life. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
In the spiritual life one becomes just like a little child, without resentment, without attachment, full of life and joy. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Discerning placement of a comma does not atone for a spiritual coma. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Bring into play the almighty power within you, so that on the stage of life you can fulfill your high destined role. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Know that this universe is nothing but a dream bluff of nature to test your consciousness of immortality. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Seek spiritual riches within. What you are is much greater than anyone or anything else you have ever yearned for. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Truths are not truths to you unless you realize them within yourself. Without realization, they are just ideas. For spiritual perception, spiritual… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Group Meditation is a castle that protects the new spiritual aspirants as well as the veteran meditators. Meditating together increases the degree… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“Forget the past,” Sri Yukteswar would console him. “The vanished lives of all men are dark with many shames. Human conduct is… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake. If material poverty is to… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Forget the past. The vanished lives of all men are dark with many shames. Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
The deeper the Self-realization of a man, the more he influences the whole universe by his subtle spiritual vibrations, and the less… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Never be petty. Do not feed resentments against anyone. I prefer good-hearted sinners to so called good people who are intolerant and… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
The material and the spiritual are but two parts of one universe and one truth. By overstressing one part or the other,… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Why shouldn't you strengthen your own vibrations through fellowship with people seeking Self-realization, and by group meditation with them? This practice will… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them. You will want to change them when you realize… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Realize the tremendous spiritual power and beauty of the life of Christ, and try to live as he lived. Christ had no… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
It is not your passing thoughts or brilliant ideas so much as your plain everyday habits that control your life…Live simply. Don’t… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He who has… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Why forgive one who wrongs you? Because if you angrily strike back you misrepresent your own divine soul nature-you are no better… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
You must know the difference between imagination, theoretical knowledge and true realization. Could you nourish yourself by only listening to a talk… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
The reality of my life cannot die for I am indestructible consciousness. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
So long as we believe in our heart of hearts that our capacity is limited and we grow anxious and unhappy, we… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
As God talked with Arjuna, so will He talk with you. As He lifted up the spirit and consciousness of Arjuna, so… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
With the realization of God comes all power. If the little wave knew that behind it is the great ocean, it could say, "I… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share
Love cannot be had for the asking; it comes only as a gift from the heart of another — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share
He who is persistent will realize God. So try your best to make meditation a regular experience in your life. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share
We should bathe our spirits in the deep, pure feeling that stirs within us when we gaze on the glories of His creation. This… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share
Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share
Mankind is engaged in an eternal quest for that ‘something else' he hopes will bring him happiness, complete and unending.For those individual souls who… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share
Just as oil is present in every part of the olive, so love permeates every part of creation. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share
The mother's love is not given to us to spoil us with indulgence, but to soften our hearts, that we may in turn soften… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share
“If one busies himself with an outer display of scriptural wealth, what time is left for silent inward diving after the priceless pearls?” Sri” — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share
When you meditate the glory of the Divine shines forth. You realize then that all along there was something tremendous within you and you… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share
He who knows his soul knows this truth: " I am beyond everything finite; I I now see that the Spirit, alone in a… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share
Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake. If material poverty is to be avoided,… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share
“Physicians must carry on their work of healing through God’s laws as applied to matter.” But he extolled the superiority of mental therapy, and… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share
If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your destiny. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share
