Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes

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• Find god - he isn't hiding from you, you're hiding from him.
• If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your destiny.
• Meditation is like giving a hug to our ourselves, getting in touch whith that awesome reality in us. While meditating we feel a deep sense…
• Come into the silence of solitude, and the vibration there will talk to you through the voice of God.
• The body is only a garment. How many times you have changed your clothing in this life, yet because of this you would not say…
• Words saturated with sincerity, conviction, faith, and intuition are like highly explosive vibration bombs, which, when set off, shatter the rocks of difficulties and create…
• Remember this: When I am gone, only love can take my place. Be absorbed night and day in the love of God, and give that…
• The so-called miraculous powers of a great master are a natural accompaniment to his exact understanding of subtle laws that operate in the inner cosmos…
• When you know God as peace within, then you will realize Him as peace existing in the universal harmony of all things without.
• With the realization of God comes all power. If the little wave knew that behind it is the great ocean, it could say, "I am…
• Humbly serving all with their beauty, flowers say more to us about God than anything else. Each one brings a message that the Heavenly Father…
• Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake. If material poverty is to be avoided, spiritual…
• Great healers, people of divine realization, do not cure by chance but by exact knowledge.
• Untrained warriors are soon killed on the battlefield; so also persons untrained in the art of preserving their inner peace are quickly riddled by the…
• In your heart must well that sympathy which soothes away all pains from the hearts of others.
• Your success in life does not altogether depend on ability and training; it also depends on your determination to grasp opportunities that are presented to…
• No matter what you are doing, keep the undercurrent of happiness. Learn to be secretly happy within your heart in spite of all circumstances.
• The kingdom of God is just behind the darkness of closed eyes, and the first gate that opens to it is your peace.
• Environment is of supreme importance. It is greater than will power.
• The reality of my life cannot die for I am indestructible consciousness.

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