The essence of Ananda is both personal and sociological. Personally for people who seek truth or identities of God, it helps to be with other people who share those ideals. Environment is stronger than willpower, and when you are with… — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share Image
Be thou a true yogi. A yogi who understands that everything he's looking for is really inside himself. Learn to live more in the… — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share Image
If you want to do one good thing in the world, the best thing you can do is give other people joy. — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share Image
My master's visualizations were so powerful their condensation into matter was mere signature. Donald Walters, formerly Kriyananda, author of The Path about his guru… — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share Image
As you begin this day, tell yourself, Today I am incarnated anew! I am released from the hypnosis of my old habits and mistakes!… — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share Image
It's the fact that your body and your personality are not God. God is you. But you can't say you are God just as the ocean is all the waves, but you can't say one wave is the ocean. And so you manifest God in a way that you don't understand. Man himself is the image of God, but he… — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share
I had always been very rational, but I'd always used reason in such a way as to convince myself that reasoning alone would not… — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share Image
The churches had left me cold, but I thought there's got to be a God. I remember going out, this is in Charleston, South Carolina, and my desire then was to be a playwright, and I was studying theater, and I went out one night, late at night, and I asked, "What can God be if there is a God?"… — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share
Become more and more centered in the Self. To live more and more in the thought that God is here in your consciousness. — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share Image
I've've seen some people like this that no matter what happens they've got something cheerful to feel about it. It's not always easy, but… — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share Image
Your enemy is still yourself. You don't have enemies. They may be self-styled. I have plenty of self-styled enemies. I don't wish them harm. — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share Image
