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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 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.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Positive, Happiness, Sad
Paramahansa Yogananda (1990). “The Essence of Self-Realization: The Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda”, Crystal Clarity Pubs

Don't depend on death to liberate you from your imperfections. You are exactly the same after death as you were before. Nothing changes; you only give up the body. If you are a thief or a liar or a cheater before death, you don't become an angel merely by dying. If such were possible, then let us all go and jump in the ocean now and become angels at once! Whatever you have made of yourself thus far, so will you be hereafter. And when you reincarnate, you will bring that same nature with you. To change, you have to make the effort. This world is the place to do it.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Death, Giving Up, Liars

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. . . Live each moment completely and the future will take care of itself. Fully enjoy the wonder and beauty of each moment.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Past, Worry, Secret

Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world

Paramahansa Yogananda
Done, World, Changing The World

Millions of people never analyze themselves. Mentally they are mechanical products of the factory of their environment, preoccupied with breakfast, lunch, and dinner, working and sleeping, and going here and there to be entertained. They don't know what or why they are seeking, nor why they never realize complete happiness and lasting satisfaction. By evading self-analysis, people go on being robots, conditioned by their environment. True self-analysis is the greatest art of progress.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Art, Sleep, Lunch
Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1986). “Self-realization”

Be kind to others, so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Art, Secret, Be Kind

It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Spiritual, Lying, Suffering
Paramahansa Yogananda (1990). “The Essence of Self-Realization: The Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda”, Crystal Clarity Pubs

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

Paramahansa Yogananda
Inspirational, Change, Smile

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.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Self, Body, Temples
Paramahansa Yogananda (1990). “The Essence of Self-Realization: The Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda”, Crystal Clarity Pubs

Humans become angels on earth, not in heaven.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Angel, Heaven, Earth

When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Mind, Calm, Perceive
Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1986). “Self-realization”

Realize that enough hidden strength lies within you to overcome all obstacles and temptations. Bring forth that indomitable power and energy.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Lying, Temptation, Overcoming

I am a spark from the Infinite. I am not flesh and bones. I am light.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Light, Flesh, Sparks

Do your best and then relax. Let things go on in a natural way, rather than force them.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Relax, Goes On, Way
Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1974). “Self-realization”

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.

Paramahansa Yogananda
World Love, Hypocrisy, Inner Peace

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 you

Paramahansa Yogananda
Struggle, Self, Tears

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.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Past, Flames, Trials

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.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Mean, Mind, Trying

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.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Wise, Past, Gone

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.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Mean, Ego, Soul

In the spiritual life one becomes just like a little child, without resentment, without attachment, full of life and joy.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Spiritual, Children, Attachment
Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1960). “Self-realization Magazine”

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.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Strong, Iron Ore, Fire

Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Ocean, Inner Peace, Dying

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.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Power, Destiny, Mind
Paramahansa Yogananda (2011). “The Law of Success: Using the Power of Spirit to Create Health, Prosperity, and Happiness”, p.8, BookBaby

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.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Passion, Home, Health

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