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Realization Quotes by Paramahansa Yogananda
- 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…
- Great healers, people of divine realization, do not cure by chance but by exact knowledge.
- 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…
- Fearlessness means faith in God: faith in his protection, His justice, His wisdom, His mercy, His love, and His Omnipresence... To be fit for Self-realization…
- Why shouldn't you strengthen your own vibrations through fellowship with people seeking Self-realization, and by group meditation with them? This practice will fortify your own…
- Group Meditation is a castle that protects the new spiritual aspirants as well as the veteran meditators. Meditating together increases the degree of Self-realization of…
- The deeper the Self-realization of a man, the more he influences the whole universe by his subtle spiritual vibrations, and the less he himself is…
- Lord Krishna... proclaims Self-realization, true wisdom, as the highest branch of all human knowledge-the king of all sciences, the very essence of dharma ("religion")-for it…
- Self-realization means to know truth through yourself, and not through others. By seeking God first, through Self-realization, all things-strength, power, prosperity, wisdom, health, and immortality-will…
- It takes a long time-many incarnations of right action, good company, help of the guru, self-awakening, wisdom, and meditation-for man to regain his soul consciousness…
- Truths are not truths to you unless you realize them within yourself. Without realization, they are just ideas. For spiritual perception, spiritual consciousness, lies not…
- I don't want people to think that they can attain realization simply by listening to others or by reading books. They must practice what they…
- You must know the difference between imagination, theoretical knowledge and true realization. Could you nourish yourself by only listening to a talk on food? To…
- The man of Self-realization knows a bliss that cannot be compared to anything in this world. His joy is independent of any object or sensory…
- God-realization is the most difficult state to reach. Let no one fool himself, nor think that someone else can "give" it to him. Whenever I…
- God is the life behind your life, the sight behind your eyes, the taste behind your tongue, and the love behind your love. To realize…
- Through Self-realization man becomes aware of true values as to his place in the divine plan and his relation to the past, present, and future…
- Self-realization may be and sometimes is attained even by people who are struggling with sick and otherwise imperfect bodies; but it cannot be attained unless…
- God-realization is attained only by great effort on the part of the yogi and by divine grace.
- The love of God uplifts and enlarges us. I can never think of myself anymore as exclusively in this body; I feel that I am…
- The way to liberation lies through this realization of the Self, by God-communion and by remaining in this God-aware state of the soul while performing…
- Self-realization is, in fact, the only religion. For it is the true purpose of religion, no matter how people define their beliefs.
- Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God; that you…
- If religion means primarily God-consciousness, or the realization of God both within and without, and secondarily a body of beliefs, tenets and dogmas, then, strictly…
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- Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. — Max Beckmann
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- Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things. — Frank A. Clark
- What most of us need, almost more than anything, is the courage and humility really to ask for help, from the depths… — Sogyal Rinpoche
- For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word. — Catherine Drinker Bowen
- Realization is not knowledge about the universe, but the living experience of the nature of the universe. Until we have such living… — Namkhai Norbu
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