If you are in a dark room, don’t beat at the darkness with a stick, but rather try to turn on the… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your destiny. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
If God calls me tomorrow I will go without a moment's turning back. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Always remember, nothing can touch you if you inwardly love God. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
If you possess happiness you possess everything: to be happy is to be in tune with God. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
If circumstances are bad and you have to bear them, do not make them a part of yourself. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
If you open the door to the magnetic power of friendship, souls of like vibrations will be attracted to you. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
I could not think of being unkind, even to a mortal enemy. It would hurt me. I see so much unkindness in… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
The soul loves to meditate, for in contact with the Spirit lies its greatest joy. If, then you experience mental resistance during… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Everything is Spirit - in essence, though hidden in manifestation. If you had the perception, you would see God in everything. — 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… — 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
It doesn't matter if a cave has been in darkness for 10,000 years or half an hour, once you light a match… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
It is better to meditate a little bit with depth than to mediate long with the mind running here and there. If… — 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
Mind is the creator of everything. You should therefore guide it to create only good. If you cling to a certain thought… — 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
Conserve the vital energy, follow a balanced diet, and always smile and be happy. He who finds joy within himself discovers that… — 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
When you make up your mind to do good things, you will accomplish them if you use dynamic will power to follow… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
If you want to be loved, start loving others who need your love…If you want others to sympathize with you, start showing… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Take life as it comes and death as it comes. Death is really beautiful; if it were a bad thing, God would… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Consider whether fulfillment of the goal you have chosen will constitute success. What is success? If you possess health and wealth, but… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Don't depend on death to liberate you from your imperfections. You are exactly the same after death as you were before. Nothing… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Sri Yukteswar used to poke gentle fun at the commonly inadequate conceptions of renunciation."A beggar cannot renounce wealth," Master would say. "If… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
How you all will change the work after I am gone. If I came back a hundred years from now, I just… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
We don't become angels merely by the instrument of death. If we are angels now, we will be angels in the hereafter.… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
If you are posing as religious and are not living the life as stressed by God, you should wake up. It is… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
If death were the end, then there is no God, and there are no realised masters - it is all a pack… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
To the last day of your life, be positive; try to be cheerful. Even at the very end, don't think, "I am… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Those who are unconquered in spirit are the real successes in life. If you can so train or condition your mind that… — 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
To love those that love you is easy. To love those that love you not is not so simple. If you want… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
God is the life behind your life, the sight behind your eyes, the taste behind your tongue, and the love behind your… — 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
