Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes
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.
Each time a swarm of worries invades your mind, refuse to be affected; wait calmly, while seeking the remedy. Spray the worries with the powerful chemical of your peace.
Do your best and then relax. Let things go on in a natural way, rather than force them.
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.
Love cannot be had for the asking; it comes only as a gift from the heart of another
When we serve others, we serve ourselves. Do not think, I will help others - think rather, I will help my own, my world, because I cannot otherwise be happy.
Everything is Spirit - in essence, though hidden in manifestation. If you had the perception, you would see God in everything.
What are you afraid of? You are an immortal being. You are neither a man nor a woman, as you may think, but a soul - joyous, eternal.
Know that this universe is nothing but a dream bluff of nature to test your consciousness of immortality.
Success is hastened or delayed by one’s habits. It is not your passing inspirations or brilliant ideas so much as your everyday mental habits that control your life.
Realize that enough hidden strength lies within you to overcome all obstacles and temptations. Bring forth that indomitable power and energy.
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.
If you possess happiness you possess everything: to be happy is to be in tune with God.
Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution.
To work with God's happiness bubbling in the soul is to carry a portable paradise within you wherever you go.
The best methods are those which help the life energy to resume its inner work of healing
No matter what you are doing, keep the undercurrent of happiness. Learn to be secretly happy within your heart in spite of all circumstances.
No action is ever an isolated event. Always, it invites from the universe a reaction that corresponds exactly to the type and the force of energy behind the deed.
As a mortal being you are limited, but as a child of God you are unlimited... Focus your attention on God, and you shall have all the power you want, to use in any direction.
If you open the door to the magnetic power of friendship, souls of like vibrations will be attracted to you.
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 read and hear.
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.
Thought is the primary energy and vibration that emanated from God and is thus the creator of life, electrons, atoms, and all forms of energy.
Whenever you want to produce something, do not depend upon the outside source: go deep and seek the Infinite Source.
Remain quiet. Don't feel you have to talk all the time. Go within and you will see the Loveliness behind all beauty.
As I radiate love and goodwill to others, I will open the channel for God's love to come to me.
Thinkers do not accept the inevitable; they turn their efforts toward changing it.
Through the orifice of silence, the whole geyser of Bliss, perpetually shoots up and flows over the soul.
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.
Another qualification of success is that we not only bring harmonious and beneficial results to ourselves, but also share those benefits with others.
