Paramahansa Yogananda
The spine is the highway to the Infinite. Your own body is the temple of God. It is within your own self that God must be realized.Collection: Self
Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them.Collection: Attitude
Proper visualization by the exercise of concentration and willpower enables us to materialize thoughts, not only as dreams or visions in the mental realm, but also as experiences in the material realm.Collection: Dream
Seclusion is the price of greatness.Collection: Wisdom
No matter what you are doing, keep the undercurrent of happiness. Learn to be secretly happy within your heart in spite of all circumstances.Collection: Happiness
The universal law of karma ... is that of action and reaction, cause and effect, sowing and reaping. In the course of natural righteousness, man, by his thoughts and actions, becomes the arbiter of his destiny.Collection: Karma
A saint is a sinner who never gave up.Collection: Saint
Read a little. Meditate more. Think of God all the time.Collection: Thinking
Mind is the creator of everything.Collection: Mind
If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty.Collection: Evil
The soul loves to meditate, for in contact with the Spirit lies its greatest joy. If, then you experience mental resistance during meditation, remember that reluctance to meditate comes from the ego; it doesn't belong to the soul.Collection: Lying
Is a diamond less valuable because it is covered with mud? God sees the changeless beauty of our souls. He knows we are not our mistakes.Collection: Mistake
Remain quiet. Don't feel you have to talk all the time. Go within and you will see the Loveliness behind all beauty.Collection: Quiet
Those persons who have perceptive eyes enjoy beauty everywhere.Collection: Eye
Never do anything that taints your mind. Wrong actions cause negative or evil mental vibrations that are reflected in your whole appearance and personality. Engage in those actions and thoughts that nurture the good qualities you want to have.Collection: Yoga
By the practice of meditation, you will find that you are carrying within your heart a portable paradise.Collection: Heart
It doesn't matter if a cave has been in darkness for 10,000 years or half an hour, once you light a match it is illuminated.Collection: Light
Change your life by changing your thoughts.Collection: Time And Change
Through the portals of silence the healing sun of wisdom and peace will shine upon you.Collection: Healing
Forget the past, for it is gone from your domain! forget the future, for it is beyond your reach! control the present! Live supremely well now! This is the way of the wise.Collection: Wise
In the state of love, no matter what you do, it's going to be good.Collection: Matter
He who conquers the mind, conquers the world.Collection: Conquer The World
Realize that enough hidden strength lies within you to overcome all obstacles and temptations. Bring forth that indomitable power and energy.Collection: Lying
The greater the will, the greater the flow of energy.Collection: Energy
Do not take life's experiences too seriously. For in reality they are nothing but dream experiences. Play your part in life, but never forget that it is only a role.Collection: Dream
Know that this universe is nothing but a dream bluff of nature to test your consciousness of immortality.Collection: Dream
Your trials did not come to punish you, but to awaken you - to make you realise that you are a part of Spirit and that just behind the sparks of your life is the Flame of Infinity.Collection: Past
Through every trial we grow. All suffering we experience has a meaning. Though it seems very cruel, it is like the fire that smelts the iron ore: the steel that emerges from that furnace is beautifully strong, useful for many purposes.Collection: Strong
The more you meditate, the more helpful you can be to others, and the more deeply you will be in tune with God.Collection: Yoga
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 the ocean." You should realize that just behind your consciousness is the Ocean of God.Collection: Inspiration
Divisions are imaginary lines drawn by small minds.Collection: Mind
The soul is bound to the body by a chain of desires, temptations, troubles and worries, and it is trying to free itself. If you keep tugging at that chain which is holding you to mortal consciousness, some day an invisible Divine Hand will intervene and snap it apart and you will be free.Collection: Hands
Have only love in your heart for others. The more you see the good in them, the more you will establish good in yourself.Collection: Yoga
Whatever you want others to be, first be that yourself. Then, you will find others responding in like manner to you.Collection: Want
Do your best and then relax. Let things go on in a natural way, rather than force them.Collection: Relax
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 man must be fearless.Collection: Faith
A good rule in life is to tell yourself simply, 'What comes of itself, let it come.Collection: Life
As I radiate love and goodwill to others, I will open the channel for God's love to come to me.Collection: Goodwill
He is the wisest who seeks God. He is the most successful who has found God.Collection: Successful
Sri Yukteswar used to poke gentle fun at the commonly inadequate conceptions of renunciation."A beggar cannot renounce wealth," Master would say. "If a man laments: 'My business has failed; my wife has left me; I will renounce all and enter a monastery,' to what worldly sacrifice is he referring? He did not renounce wealth and love; they renounced him!"Saints like Gandhi, on the other hand, have made not only tangible material sacrifices, but also the more difficult renunciation of selfish motive and private goal, merging their inmost being in the stream of humanity as a whole.Collection: Fun
Spirit is the vast stillness which is behind all created things.Collection: Spirit
He who has realized oneness with God possesses all knowledge contained in Him. Knowing the Lord as Beginning and End of all beings and worlds, a true Brahmin has knowledge of the hereafter and of the workings of nature on this plane of existence.Collection: Oneness
It is foolish to be afraid of death. Just think. No more repaired tires on the body vehicle, no more patchwork living.Collection: Death
One cannot tell when he is going to be healed, so do not try to set an exact time limit. Faith, not time, will determine when the cure will be effected.Collection: Healing
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 one can concentrate and meditate uninterruptedly upon God.Collection: Struggle
Love is the heartbeat of all life.Collection: Healing
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 poverty is to be abhorred. For it is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.Collection: Spiritual