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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.

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.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Evil, Quality, Looks

Know that this universe is nothing but a dream bluff of nature to test your consciousness of immortality.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Dream, Spiritual, Tests

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.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Play, Suffering, Directors

Those persons who have perceptive eyes enjoy beauty everywhere.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Eye, Beauty Everywhere, Enjoy
Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1969). “Self-realization Magazine”

Come into the silence of solitude, and the vibration there will talk to you through the voice of God.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Voice, Silence, Meditation

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.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Dream, Exercise, Vision

No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit

Paramahansa Yogananda
Words Of Wisdom, Directors, Benefits

Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Relationship, Wall, Kindness

The kingdom of God is just behind the darkness of closed eyes, and the first gate that opens to it is your peace.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Eye, Meditation, Darkness

If circumstances are bad and you have to bear them, do not make them a part of yourself.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Bears, Circumstances, Ifs

The purpose of the guru is not to weaken your will. It is to teach you secrets of developing your inner power, until you can stand unshaken amidst the crash of breaking worlds.

Paramahansa Yogananda
World, Crash
"The Essence of Self-Realization: The Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda".

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

Paramahansa Yogananda
Attitude, Law Of Attraction, Responsible

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

Paramahansa Yogananda
Simple, Calming, Uncomplicated

The more you meditate, the more helpful you can be to others, and the more deeply you will be in tune with God.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Yoga, Tunes, Helpful

Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Happiness, Lying, Self
Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1971). “Self-realization”

If you want to be loved, start loving others who need your love....If you want others to sympathize with you, start showing sympathy to those around you. If you want to be respected, you must learn to be respectful to everyone, both young and old....Whatever you want others to be, first be that yourself; then you will find others responding in like manner to you.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Needs, Want, Firsts

The Divine has loved me as mother, as father, and as friend, behind all friends. I searched for that one Friend behind all friends, that one lover whom I now see glimmering in all your faces. And that friend never fails me.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Mother, Father, Faces

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.

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

Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Persistence, Guarantees That, Results

Through love and sincerity continuously beautify your inner life in every way, by daily looking into the mirror of introspection.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Mirrors, Way, Sincerity

If you possess happiness you possess everything: to be happy is to be in tune with God.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Happiness, Attitude, Tunes
Paramahansa Yogananda (2011). “The Law of Success: Using the Power of Spirit to Create Health, Prosperity, and Happiness”, p.21, BookBaby

Retire to the center of your being, which is calmness.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Balance, Mindfulness, Calmness

We do not always see the things that are nearest to us. We pass by riches that lie close at hand and chase after rainbows.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Lying, Hands, Rainbow

In vegetables and fruits, God has infused medicinal power to help in overcoming disease. Even these, however, have but a limited potency. The organs of the body are essentially sustained by the energy of God, and the person who employs various methods to increase this energy will have at his command a greater power for healing than is afforded by any medicine or diet.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Healing, Vegetables, Medicine

Love cannot be had for the asking; it comes only as a gift from the heart of another

Paramahansa Yogananda
Heart, Asking
Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1974). “Self-realization”

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