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Sincerity is a soul quality that God has given to every human being, but not all express it.

Sincerity is a soul quality that God has given to every human being, but not all express it.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Soul, Quality, Sincerity

The scenery of mountains painted on the ever-changing azure canvas of the sky, the mysterious mechanism of the human body, the rose, the green grass carpet, the magnanimity of souls, the loftiness of minds, the depth of love - all these things remind us of a God who is beautiful and noble.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Beautiful, Sky, Rose

World' is a large term, but man must enlarge his allegiance, considering himself in the light of a world citizen... A person who truly feels: 'The world is my homeland; it is my America, my India, my Philippines, my England, my Africa,' will never lack scope for a useful and happy life. His natural local pride will know limitless expansion; he will be in touch with creative universal currents.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Pride, Happy Life, Men

When you know God as peace within, then you will realize Him as peace existing in the universal harmony of all things without.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Inspiration, Realizing, Harmony

Those who are socially inclined will find a new power to help humanity through the lessons of books written by noble and gifted people.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Book, Power, People

Faithfulness in the performance of small duties gives us strength to adhere to difficult determinations that life will someday force us to make.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Life, Determination, Yoga

Lord Krishna... proclaims Self-realization, true wisdom, as the highest branch of all human knowledge-the king of all sciences, the very essence of dharma ("religion")-for it alone permanently uproots the cause of man's threefold suffering and reveals to him his true nature of Bliss. Self-realization is yoga or "oneness" with truth-the direct perception or experience of truth by the all-knowing intuitive faculty of the soul.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Kings, Yoga, Men
Paramahansa Yogananda (2007). “God Talks With Arjuna”, p.750, Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.

There is in India a story of a dying youth who, hearing the sobs of grief around him, cried: Insult me not with your cries of sympathy. When I soar to the land of eternal light and love; it is I who should feel for you. For me, disease, shattering of bones, sorrow, excruciating heartaches no more. I dream joy, I glide in joy, I breathe in joy evermore.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Death, Dream, Grief

God is love. His plan for creation can only be rooted in love. Does not that simple thought, rather than erudite reasoning, offer solace to the human heart?

Paramahansa Yogananda
God, Heart, Simple

Behold thine immortal Self resurrected with Christ in the light of illumination, present in every soul, every flower, every atom!

Paramahansa Yogananda
Flower, Light, Self
"Self-realization Magazine".

Calmness is the living breath of God's immortality in you.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Calm, Immortality, Calmness
Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1986). “Self-realization”

God-realization is the most difficult state to reach. Let no one fool himself, nor think that someone else can "give" it to him. Whenever I fell into a state of mental stagnation, my Master could do nothing for me. But I never gave up trying to keep in tune with him by cheerfully performing whatever he asked me to do. "I have come to him for God-realization," I reasoned, "and I must listen to his advice."

Paramahansa Yogananda
Thinking, Giving, Advice

Remember this: When I am gone, only love can take my place. Be absorbed night and day in the love of God, and give that love to all.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Love, Night, Giving

You don't know what is going to come to you in this world; you have to go on living and worrying. Those who die are pitying us; they are blessing us. Why should you grieve for them?

Paramahansa Yogananda
Death, Blessing, Grieving
Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1966). “Self-realization Magazine”

The Spirit of God, I realized, is exhaustless Bliss; His body is countless tissues of light.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Light, Tissues, Body
Paramahansa Yogananda (2016). “Autobiography of a Yogi”, p.197, Paramahansa Yogananda

Discerning placement of a comma does not atone for a spiritual coma.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Spiritual, Doe, Placement
Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda (2008). “Autobiography of a Yogi”, p.128, Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.

With the opening of the New Year, all the closed portals of limitations will be thrown open and I shall move through them to vaster fields, where my worthwhile dreams of life will be fulfilled.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Dream, New Year, Moving

We don't become angels merely by the instrument of death. If we are angels now, we will be angels in the hereafter. If we are dark, negative personalities now, we will be the same after death.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Death, Angel, Dark
Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1977). “Self-realization”

Sing songs that none have sung

Paramahansa Yogananda
Song, Singing

May Thy Love shine forever on the sanctuary of my devotion. And may I be able to awaken Thy love in all hearts.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Heart, Shining, Forever
Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda (2008). “Autobiography of a Yogi”, p.245, Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.

We should bathe our spirits in the deep, pure feeling that stirs within us when we gaze on the glories of His creation. This is the way to know God as beauty.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Feelings, Way, Spirit
Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1977). “Self-realization”

God made us angels of energy, encased in solids - currents of life dazzling through a material bulb of flesh.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Angel, Energy, Flesh

Through Self-realization man becomes aware of true values as to his place in the divine plan and his relation to the past, present, and future of mankind.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Past, Men, Self

Love is the song of the soul singing to God. It is the balanced rhythmic dance of planets - sun and moon lit

Paramahansa Yogananda
Love, Song, Moon
Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1980). “Self-realization”

How you all will change the work after I am gone. If I came back a hundred years from now, I just wonder if I would even recognize it.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Years, Gone, Wonder

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