Be careful what you choose to do consciously, for unless your will is very strong, that is what you may have to… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“You must methodize your life. God created routine. The sun shines until dusk and the stars shine until dawn.” — 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
Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid… — 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
Most of the world is like a mental hospital. Some persons are sick with jealousy, others with anger, hatred, passion. They are… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Success is hastened or delayed by one’s habits. It is not your passing inspirations or brilliant ideas so much as your everyday… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“The more your mind resists a bad habit instead of embracing it gleefully, the more you will build up the inner strength… — 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
