Spiritual Quotes by Paramahansa Yogananda

In the spiritual life one becomes just like a little child, without resentment, without attachment, full of life and joy.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Discerning placement of a comma does not atone for a spiritual coma.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

As you find your soul-reservoir of peace, less and less controversy will be able to afflict your life.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Seek spiritual riches within. What you are is much greater than anyone or anything else you have ever yearned for.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

The reality of my life cannot die for I am indestructible consciousness.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Bring into play the almighty power within you, so that on the stage of life you can fulfill your high destined role.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

“Forget the past,” Sri Yukteswar would console him. “The vanished lives of all men are dark with many shames. Human conduct is…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Forget the past. The vanished lives of all men are dark with many shames. Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake. If material poverty is to…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Truths are not truths to you unless you realize them within yourself. Without realization, they are just ideas. For spiritual perception, spiritual…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Group Meditation is a castle that protects the new spiritual aspirants as well as the veteran meditators. Meditating together increases the degree…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

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

As God talked with Arjuna, so will He talk with you. As He lifted up the spirit and consciousness of Arjuna, so…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

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

The material and the spiritual are but two parts of one universe and one truth. By overstressing one part or the other,…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

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

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

You must know the difference between imagination, theoretical knowledge and true realization. Could you nourish yourself by only listening to a talk…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Realize the tremendous spiritual power and beauty of the life of Christ, and try to live as he lived. Christ had no…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them. You will want to change them when you realize…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

It is not your passing thoughts or brilliant ideas so much as your plain everyday habits that control your life…Live simply. Don’t…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Know that this universe is nothing but a dream bluff of nature to test your consciousness of immortality.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

So long as we believe in our heart of hearts that our capacity is limited and we grow anxious and unhappy, we…

— Paramahansa Yogananda

Never be petty. Do not feed resentments against anyone. I prefer good-hearted sinners to so called good people who are intolerant and…

— Paramahansa Yogananda