Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is individualized spirit. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Self-realization is, in fact, the only religion. For it is the true purpose of religion, no matter how people define their beliefs. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Behold thine immortal Self resurrected with Christ in the illuminating Light of Christ Consciousness, present in every soul, every flower, every atom. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Roam in the world as a lion of self-control; see that the frogs of weakness don’t kick you around. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Behold thine immortal Self resurrected with Christ in the light of illumination, present in every soul, every flower, every atom! — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
You do not have to struggle to reach God, but you do have to struggle to tear away the self-created veil that… — 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
Self-realization may be and sometimes is attained even by people who are struggling with sick and otherwise imperfect bodies; but it cannot… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
We are all part of the One Spirit. When you experience the true meaning of religion, which is to know God, you… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Fearlessness means faith in God: faith in his protection, His justice, His wisdom, His mercy, His love, and His Omnipresence... To be… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Group Meditation is a castle that protects the new spiritual aspirants as well as the veteran meditators. Meditating together increases the degree… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Self-realization means to know truth through yourself, and not through others. By seeking God first, through Self-realization, all things-strength, power, prosperity, wisdom,… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
The deeper the Self-realization of a man, the more he influences the whole universe by his subtle spiritual vibrations, and the less… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
When a man in the process of dreaming becomes conscious that he is dreaming, he is no longer identified with the phenomena;… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Millions of people never analyze themselves. Mentally they are mechanical products of the factory of their environment, preoccupied with breakfast, lunch, and… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
The love of God uplifts and enlarges us. I can never think of myself anymore as exclusively in this body; I feel… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He who has… — 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
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
Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
As you forget self in service to others, you will find that, without seeking it, your own cup of happiness will be… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
In that power of self-control lies the seed of eternal freedom. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Through Self-realization man becomes aware of true values as to his place in the divine plan and his relation to the past,… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
The spine is the highway to the Infinite. Your own body is the temple of God. It is within your own self… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Lord Krishna... proclaims Self-realization, true wisdom, as the highest branch of all human knowledge-the king of all sciences, the very essence of… — 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
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 way to liberation lies through this realization of the Self, by God-communion and by remaining in this God-aware state of the… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
The man of Self-realization knows a bliss that cannot be compared to anything in this world. His joy is independent of any… — 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
