The Divine has loved me as mother, as father, and as friend, behind all friends. I searched for that one Friend behind… — 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
Strengthen your mind and refuse to carry the burden of mental and moral weakness acquired in past years; burn them in the… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Think of Divine Abundance as a mighty, refreshing rain. Whatever receptacle you have at hand will receive it. If you hold up… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Work for god, love god alone, and be wise with god. When an ordinary man puts the necessary rime and enthusiasm into… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Feel the love of God; then in every person you will see the face of the Father, the light of love which… — 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… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Through Self-realization man becomes aware of true values as to his place in the divine plan and his relation to the past,… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Hypnotism is trespass into the territory of another's consciousness. Its temporary phenomena have nothing in common with the miracles performed by men… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Great healers, people of divine realization, do not cure by chance but by exact knowledge. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Affirm divine calmness and peace, and send out only thoughts of love and goodwill if you want to live in peace and… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
God-realization is attained only by great effort on the part of the yogi and by divine grace. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
This life is not man's own show; if he becomes personally and emotionally involved in the very complicated cosmic drama, he reaps… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
The greatest romance is with the Infinite. You have no idea how beautiful life can be. When you suddenly find God everywhere,… — 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
The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic… — 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
The entire universe is God's cosmic motion picture, and that individuals are merely actors in the divine play who change roles through… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Thoughts are universally and not individually rooted; a truth cannot be created, but only perceived. The erroneous thoughts of man result from… — 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
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
