Goswami Kriyananda
Attachment is the state of ignorance or forgetfulness, and thus clinging to a memory of enjoymentCollection: Memories
Learn to live more in the Self. Come down a little bit to eat and talk as necessary.Collection: Happiness
Take whatever cause for outward happiness you might have and take it within yourself, so that, if the sun should go out, you will not be any less happy; if the birds stop singing you will not be any less happy.Collection: Happiness
The essence of Ananda is both personal and sociological. Personally for people who seek truth or identities of God, it helps to be with other people who share those ideals. Environment is stronger than willpower, and when you are with people who have high ideals, it helps you to grow in your ideals.Collection: Essence
If you want to know me, listen to my music.Collection: Want
Feel that you are happy without any cause for happiness.Collection: Happiness
To be happy, you must live in, but not for, the present moment.Collection: Happiness
The secret of success is doing things not merely because they are popular, but because you deeply believe in them.Collection: Believe
Your enemy is still yourself. You don't have enemies. They may be self-styled. I have plenty of self-styled enemies. I don't wish them harm.Collection: Self
The thing is that the ego cannot cure itself of its own malady of egoism; it's already infected by the disease itself. And that is why it is necessary to go to a guru who knows God and by absorbing his consciousness into yourself, you discover that you aren't this ego. You cross that abyss and you find that you are infinite.Collection: Ego
Society cannot but depend to a disproportionate degree on its capable few to develop and flourish.Collection: Degrees
The churches had left me cold, but I thought there's got to be a God. I remember going out, this is in Charleston, South Carolina, and my desire then was to be a playwright, and I was studying theater, and I went out one night, late at night, and I asked, "What can God be if there is a God?" I wasn't sure there was a God, but if there is a God, what must he be? Well, he can't be a judge, who's up there just waiting for us to make a mistake so he can clap us into hell. There's got to be something more than that.Collection: Mistake
We've got to be long distance runners on the spiritual path. We want to run as fast as we can, but at the same time realize that if God isn't at the end of that 100 yards, we don't fall flat of exhaustion. We've got to have whatever rhythm it takes to be able to go on for incarnations until we find that state of perfection we've been seeking.Collection: Happiness
The two-fold goal of all human striving is the avoidance of pain, and the fulfillment of happiness.Collection: Pain
Those who walk, run, or slide downhill eagerly would rather not think about the long, hard climb back up the hill again.Collection: Running
Sociologically, I think it is the most important thing going on in the world today. Because you can't change people by force. Communism made a great mistake in trying to inflict its beliefs on everybody. People have to find their own understanding, and if you can offer them an example that will inspire, they will come naturally to it. Ananda tries to offer this inspiring example.Collection: Mistake
Happiness is a smile of comfort to the sorrowful.Collection: Happiness