“Sense yearnings sap your inner peace; they are like openings in a reservoir that permit vital waters to be wasted in the… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
The soul's first adventure is the fight between two ideas: the wish to return to earth in a human form, and the… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
The soul is bound to the body by a chain of desires, temptations, troubles and worries, and it is trying to free… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Your part is to awaken your desire to accomplish your worthy objectives. Then whip your will into action until it follows the… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits. Obeying the ego leads to… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Be afraid of nothing. Hating none, giving love to all, feeling the love of God, seeing His presence in everyone, and having… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
The Creator, in taking infinite pains to shroud with mystery His presence in every atom of creation, could have had but one… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
The way to liberation lies through this realization of the Self, by God-communion and by remaining in this God-aware state of the… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“The forceful activating impulse of wrong desire is the greatest enemy to the happiness of man. Roam in the world as a… — 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 Image
Love cannot be had for the asking; it comes only as a gift from the heart of another — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
He who is persistent will realize God. So try your best to make meditation a regular experience in your life. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
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 Image
Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
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 Image
Just as oil is present in every part of the olive, so love permeates every part of creation. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
