Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
I could not think of being unkind, even to a mortal enemy. It would hurt me. I see so much unkindness in… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
You naturally love those who are dear to you, and you must learn to give that kind of love to the whole… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
People are running, running, but there is no place in the world to which they can flee to escape themselves. Ultimately, each… — 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
A true yogi may remain dutifully in the world; there, he is like butter on water and not like the easily-diluted milk… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
You don't know what is going to come to you in this world; you have to go on living and worrying. Those… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
You are walking on the earth as in a dream. Our world is a dream within a dream; you must realize that… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
The ordinary man considers solids and liquids and the energy manifestations of the material world to be vastly different, but the yogi… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Be afraid of nothing. Hating none, giving love to all, feeling the love of God, seeing His presence in everyone, and having… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Don't depend on death to liberate you from your imperfections. You are exactly the same after death as you were before. Nothing… — 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
This world is not the same to all people. Each one lives in his little domain…Peace and harmony may reign in one… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
A harmonized mind produces harmony in this world of seeming discord. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Most of the world is like a mental hospital. Some persons are sick with jealousy, others with anger, hatred, passion. They are… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
The purpose of the guru is not to weaken your will. It is to teach you secrets of developing your inner power,… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Those in the West who have adopted Christ as their own should remember that he was an Oriental. Love and sympathy for… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
He who has realized oneness with God possesses all knowledge contained in Him. Knowing the Lord as Beginning and End of all… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
When we serve others, we serve ourselves. Do not think, I will help others - think rather, I will help my own,… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
If religion means primarily God-consciousness, or the realization of God both within and without, and secondarily a body of beliefs, tenets and… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
When you came into this world you cried, whereas everyone else rejoiced. During your lifetime, work and serve in such a way… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Gandhi has sound economic and cultural reasons for encouraging the revival of cottage industries, but he does not counsel a fanatical repudiation… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
World' is a large term, but man must enlarge his allegiance, considering himself in the light of a world citizen... A person… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
I could not think of being unkind, even to a mortal enemy. It would hurt me. I see so much unkindness in… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
At physical death man loses his consciousness of the flesh and becomes conscious of his astral body in the astral world. Thus… — 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
