Paramahansa Yogananda
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 are contented with simple living.Collection: Happiness
When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything.Collection: Mind
Humans become angels on earth, not in heaven.Collection: Angel
Mind is the creator of everything. You should therefore guide it to create only good. If you cling to a certain thought with dynamic will power, it finally assumes a tangible outward form. When you are able to employ your will always for constructive purposes, you become the controller of your destiny.Collection: Power
You do not have to struggle to reach God, but you do have to struggle to tear away the self-created veil that hides him from youCollection: Struggle
Nothing is impossible unless you think it is.Collection: Inspirational
Truth is not afraid of questions.Collection: Truth Is
Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.Collection: Life
When you make up your mind to do good things, you will accomplish them if you use dynamic will power to follow through. No matter what the circumstances are, if you go on trying, God will create the means by which your will shall find its proper reward.Collection: Mean
Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace.Collection: World Love
Most of the world is like a mental hospital. Some persons are sick with jealousy, others with anger, hatred, passion. They are victims of their habits and emotions. But you can make your home a place of peace.Collection: Passion
When you learn to get along with yourself, you will know how to get along with everybody.Collection: Know How
Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.Collection: Ocean
Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits. Obeying the ego leads to bondage; obeying the soul brings liberation.Collection: Mean
Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations.Collection: Spiritual
When, by meditation, we withdraw restless thoughts from the lake of the mind, we behold our soul, a perfect reflection of Spirit.Collection: Reflection
Just behind the darkness of closed eyes shines the light of God. When you behold that light in meditation, hold onto it with devotional zeal. Feel yourself inside it: That is where God dwells.Collection: Eye
The ocean of Spirit has become the little bubble of my soul. Whether floating in birth, or disappearing in death, in the ocean of cosmic awareness the bubble of my life cannot die. I am indestructible consciousness, protected in the bosom of Spirit’s immortality.Collection: Ocean
Bring into play the almighty power within you, so that on the stage of life you can fulfill your high destined role.Collection: Spiritual
Release for constructive purposes the power you already have, and more will come. Move on your path with unflinching determination, using all the attributes of success. Tune yourself with the creative power of spirit.Collection: Determination
Those in the West who have adopted Christ as their own should remember that he was an Oriental. Love and sympathy for Jesus should be expanded into love and sympathy for all Orientals, and for all the world.Collection: Jesus
I come not to entertain you with worldly festivities but to arouse your sleeping memory of immortality.Collection: Inspirational
Evil spreads with the wind; truth is capable of spreading even against it.Collection: Wind
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 experience. It is an incomparable happiness that cannot be described in words. Such joy is known as sattvik-ananda.Collection: Independent
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 speaking, there is but one religion in the world, for there is but one God.Collection: Mean
The Spirit could not create matter as anything different from Itself, for it had only Itself as the tissue or material with which to build the cosmos.Collection: Different
Forget your dream-born mortal weakness. Wake up and know that you and God are one.Collection: Dream
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 for their Innate Right to their own Free Will.Collection: Wise
God-realization is attained only by great effort on the part of the yogi and by divine grace.Collection: Effort
If you are posing as religious and are not living the life as stressed by God, you should wake up. It is wrong to be insincere. The best time to begin a religious life is when you are youthful and well. If you have a short time to live, you must work harder at it. And if you have along time to live, you should not waste that precious opportunity.Collection: Life
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 of intimacy with God, a love that is inexplicable.Collection: Reality
Gandhi has sound economic and cultural reasons for encouraging the revival of cottage industries, but he does not counsel a fanatical repudiation of all modern progress. Machinery, trains, automobiles, the telegraph have played important parts in his own colossal life! Fifty years of public service, in prison and out, wrestling daily with practical details and harsh realities in the political world, have only increased his balance, open-mindedness, sanity, and humorous appreciation of the quaint human spectacle.Collection: Appreciation
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 is right here.Collection: Father
The reflection, the verisimilitude, of life that shines in the fleshly cells from the soul source is the only cause of man's attachment to his body; obviously he would not pay solicitous homage to a clod of clay. A human being falsely identifies himself with his physical form because the life currents from the soul are breath-conveyed into the flesh with such intense power that man mistakes the effect for a cause, and idolatrously imagines the body to have life of its own.Collection: Mistake
Affirm divine calmness and peace, and send out only thoughts of love and goodwill if you want to live in peace and harmony. Never get angry, for anger poisons your system.Collection: Poison
Extend the boundaries of the glowing kingdom of your love, gradually including your family, your neighbors, your community, your country, all countries -- all living sentient creatures.Collection: Love
Spirit vibrated into matter; hence, both Spirit and matter exist. Matter, however, does not exist in the way that it appears to us. It exists as we see it owing to the delusive force of maya, which makes the indivisible Spirit seem finite and divisible to all appearances. Matter has existence in the same delusive way as does a mirage in the desert.Collection: Doe
Ever-new Joy is God. He is inexhaustible; as you continue your meditations during the years, He will beguile you with an infinite ingenuity. Devotees like yourself who have found the way to God never dream of exchanging Him for any other happiness; He is seductive beyond thought of competition.Collection: Dream
Consider no one a stranger. Learn to feel that everybody is akin to you.Collection: Love
People are running, running, but there is no place in the world to which they can flee to escape themselves. Ultimately, each one must face himself.Collection: Running
When you yearn for God with intensity, He will come to you.Collection: Intensity
Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them. You will want to change them when you realize that each thought creates according to its own nature. Remember that the law works at all times and that you are always demonstrating according to the kind of thoughts you habitually entertain. Therefore, start now to think only those thoughts that will bring you health and happiness.Collection: Inspirational
A genuine smile distributes the cosmic current, Prana to every body cell.The happy man is less subject to disease, for happiness actually attracts into the body a greater supply of the Universal life energy.Collection: Smile
If circumstances are bad and you have to bear them, do not make them a part of yourself.Collection: Bears
If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your destiny.Collection: Strong
Before embarking on important undertakings sit quietly calm your senses and thoughts and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the great creative power of Spirit.Collection: Creative
I am a spark from the Infinite. I am not flesh and bones. I am light. In helping others to succeed I shall find my own prosperity. In the welfare of others I shall find my own well-being. I am infinite. I am spaceless, I am tireless; I am beyond body thought, and utterance; beyond all matter and mind. I am endless bliss.Collection: Helping Others