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
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
Always remember, nothing can touch you if you inwardly love God. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
