The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
What are you afraid of? You are an immortal being. You are neither a man nor a woman, as you may think,… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
What you are is much greater than anything or anyone else you have ever yearned for. God is manifest in you in… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“Spirit projects the desire to create an individualized expression of Itself. The soul becomes manifest and projects the idea of the body… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
A swami may conceivably follow only the path of dry reasoning, of cold renunciation; but a yogi engages himself in a definite,… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
The body is only a garment. How many times you have changed your clothing in this life, yet because of this you… — 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 worry, there is static coming through your mind radio. God's song is the song of calmness. Nervousness is the static;… — 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
Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake. If material poverty is to… — 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
When your mind is fully withdrawn in superconsciousness, it becomes centered in the bliss of the spine. You are then in your… — 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
When the yogi starts to meditate, he must leave behind all sensory thoughts and all longings for possessions by quieting the waves… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
As God is omnipresent in the cosmos but is undisturbed by its variety, so man, who as a soul is individualized Spirit,… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
The ocean of Spirit has become the little bubble of my soul. Whether floating in birth, or disappearing in death, in the… — 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
Love cannot be had for the asking; it comes only as a gift from the heart of another — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share
He who is persistent will realize God. So try your best to make meditation a regular experience in your life. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share
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
Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share
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
Just as oil is present in every part of the olive, so love permeates every part of creation. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share
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
“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
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
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
Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake. If material poverty is to be avoided,… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share
“Physicians must carry on their work of healing through God’s laws as applied to matter.” But he extolled the superiority of mental therapy, and… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share
If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your destiny. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share
![“Spirit projects the desire to create an individualized expression of Itself. The soul becomes manifest and projects the idea of the body in causal [=consciousness / idea / thought] form. The idea becomes energy, [=life force / prana] or the lifetronic astral body. The astral body becomes condensed…” quote by Paramahansa Yogananda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e33/paramahansa-yogananda-556_creation_spirit-projects-the-desire-to-create-an_1418823.jpg)
