PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA QUOTES

“Making others happy, through kindness of speech and sincerity of right advice, is a sign of true greatness. To hurt another soul by sarcastic words, looks, or suggestions, is despicable."

Have only love in your heart for others. The more you see the good in them, the more you will establish good in yourself.

'Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them.'

Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.

By the practice of meditation, You will find that you are carrying within your heart a portable paradise.

You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God's creative principle works in you.

“The entire universe is God's cosmic motion picture, and that individuals are merely actors in the divine play who change roles through reincarnation; mankind's deep suffering is rooted in identifying too closely with one's current role, rather than with the movie's director, or God.”

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Self-realization means the realization that your true Self is not the ego, but God, the vast ocean of Spirit which manifested for a time the little wave of awareness that you now see as yourself.

The greatest romance is with the Infinite. You have no idea how beautiful life can be.When you suddenly find God everywhere, when He comes and talks to you and guides you, the romance of divine love has begun.

Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.

"If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you."

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 absolute values in the relative world of nature.

Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.

Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution.

“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 affected by the phenomenal flux.”

I relax and cast aside all mental burdens, allowing God to express through me His perfect love, peace, and wisdom.

Meditation is like giving a hug to ourselves, getting in touch with that awesome reality in us. While meditating we feel a deep sense of intimacy with God, a love that is inexplicable.

Bring into play the almighty power within you, so that on the stage of life you can fulfill your high destined role.

Will power is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it gets.

Be unshakable in your conviction that you have all the potentialities of great success

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 for constructive purposes, You become the controller of your destiny.

Always remember, nothing can touch you if you inwardly love God.

Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

“Every morning I offer my body, my mind and any ability that I posses, to be used by Thee, O infinite creator, in whatever way Thou dost choose to express Thyself through me. I know that all work is Thy work, and that no task is too difficult or too menial when offered to Thee in loving service.”

'Stillness is the altar of spirit.'

When i am gone only love can take my place.

There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself..

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.

Love is the light which dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.

Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.

Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake.

Every night in sleep God takes away all your troubles to show you that you are not a mortal being; you are spirit.

If you find true joy in this life, you will have it now and in the afterlife too.

The greatest sin is to call yourself a sinner. You are a child of God. Although gold can be covered with mud for centuries, it remains always gold. So the pure gold of the soul can be covered over with the mud of delusion for aeons, but in its true nature it remains forever undefiled.

It is not what you read that give you liberation but what you do with what you read.

Everything else can wait but your search for God cannot wait.

Be honest with yourself. The world of men is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace.

Read a little. Meditate more. Think of God all the time.

"When you meditate long...the glory of the Divine shines forth. You realize then that all along there was something tremendous within you, and you did not know it."