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
It takes a long time-many incarnations of right action, good company, help of the guru, self-awakening, wisdom, and meditation-for man to regain… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
You must know the difference between imagination, theoretical knowledge and true realization. Could you nourish yourself by only listening to a talk… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Untrained warriors are soon killed on the battlefield; so also persons untrained in the art of preserving their inner peace are quickly… — 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
The material and the spiritual are but two parts of one universe and one truth. By overstressing one part or the other,… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
I don't want people to think that they can attain realization simply by listening to others or by reading books. They must… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
By the practice of meditation, you will find that you are carrying within your heart a portable paradise. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Build your inner environment. Practice Silence! I remember the wonderful discipline of the Great Ones. When we used to talk and chatter,… — 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
