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
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
It is a great mistake to regard a certain object as pleasurable in itself and to store the idea of it in… — 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
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
We fear death because of pain, and because of the thought that we may become obliterated. This idea is erroneous. Jesus showed… — 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
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
