Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes

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• The material and the spiritual are but two parts of one universe and one truth. By overstressing one part or the other, man fails to…
• Never be petty. Do not feed resentments against anyone. I prefer good-hearted sinners to so called good people who are intolerant and devoid of compassion.…
• I come not to entertain you with worldly festivities but to arouse your sleeping memory of immortality.
• Whenever you want to produce something, do not depend upon the outside source: go deep and seek the Infinite Source.
• Love is the heartbeat of all life.
• Build your inner environment. Practice Silence! I remember the wonderful discipline of the Great Ones. When we used to talk and chatter, they would say:…
• Happiness blooms naturally in the hearts of those who are inwardly free. It flows spontaneously, like a mountain spring after April showers, in minds that…
• Wise guidance never violates people's Free Will. A superior who demands obedience of his subordinates should show respect for their capacity to understand, and also…
• Death is only an experience through which you are meant to learn a great lesson: you cannot die.
• The seeker of God is the real lover of vidya, unchangeable truth; all else is avidya, relative knowledge.
• Thought is the primary energy and vibration that emanated from God and is thus the creator of life, electrons, atoms, and all forms of energy.
• As God talked with Arjuna, so will He talk with you. As He lifted up the spirit and consciousness of Arjuna, so will He uplift…
• Be inwardly ever newly joyous, like the ever-fresh laughing waters of a gurgling brook.
• At physical death man loses his consciousness of the flesh and becomes conscious of his astral body in the astral world. Thus physical death is…
• Death is not as terrible as you think. It comes to you as a healer. Sleep is nothing but a counterfeit death. What happens in…
• From joy people are born; for joy they live; in joy they melt at death. Death is an ecstasy, for it removes the burden of…
• Births and deaths are inevitable for man only during the state of ignorance in which he thinks he is the body and cannot exist without…
• Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He who has fled his Self…
• Take life as it comes and death as it comes. Death is really beautiful; if it were a bad thing, God would not let it…
• To the last day of your life, be positive; try to be cheerful. Even at the very end, don't think, "I am finished." Instead of…

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