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Love is the Song of the Soul singing to God.

Love is the Song of the Soul singing to God.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Song, Love Is, Soul
Paramahansa Yogananda, “What Is Love?”

Each minute of life should be a divine quest.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Focus, Mindfulness, Quests

When you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Real Friends, Community, Live For Others

Be inwardly ever newly joyous, like the ever-fresh laughing waters of a gurgling brook.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Laughter, Water, Laughing

Those who look at the surface of the sea must behold the birth and death of the waves, but those who seek the depths of the ocean behold one indivisible mass of water. Similarly, those who acknowledge "life" and "death" are tossed by sorrow, while those who live in the illimitable superconsciousness behold and feel the One Ineffable Bliss.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Death, Ocean, Sea

Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept!

Paramahansa Yogananda
Brotherhood, Example, Understood
Paramahansa Yogananda (2015). “Autobiography of a Yogi”, p.542, Sheba Blake Publishing

Those who are unconquered in spirit are the real successes in life. If you can so train or condition your mind that you are content regardless of what you have or do not have, and if you can stand the challenge of all your trials and remain calm-that is true happiness.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Real, Challenges, Mind

Our great whirling planet, our human individuality, were not given to us merely that we might exist for a time and then vanish into nothingness, but that we might question what it is all about. To live without understanding the purpose of life is foolish, a waste of time. The mystery of life surrounds us; we were given intelligence in order to solve it.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Order, Understanding, Individuality

If death were the end, then there is no God, and there are no realised masters - it is all a pack of lies. The great ones wouldn't urge you to became better, for what would be the use if, good or bad, we are all junked at the end of life? What would be the value of the scriptures? There would be no justice whatsoever if this present existence is all there is to each individual life. What of those souls who lived only a few years, or lived in blind or crippled bodies?

Paramahansa Yogananda
Death, Lying, Years

Some people try to be tall by cutting off the heads of others.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Cutting, People, Trying
Paramahansa Yogananda (2016). “Autobiography of a Yogi”, p.182, Paramahansa Yogananda

When you meditate 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.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Shining, Meditation, Realizing

Environment is stronger than will.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Inspirational, Yoga, Environmental

So long as we believe in our heart of hearts that our capacity is limited and we grow anxious and unhappy, we are lacking in faith. One who truly trusts in God has no right to be anxious about anything.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Spiritual, Believe, Heart

Consider whether fulfillment of the goal you have chosen will constitute success. What is success? If you possess health and wealth, but have trouble with everybody (including yourself), yours is not a successful life. Existence becomes futile if you cannot find happiness. When wealth is lost, you have lost a little; when health is lost, you have lost something of more consequence; but when peace of mind is lost, you have lost the highest treasure.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Successful, Goal, Mind

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.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Children, Focus, Attention

Be afraid of nothing. Hating none, giving love to all, feeling the love of God, seeing His presence in everyone, and having but one desire - for His constant presence in the temple of your consciousness - that is the way to live in this world.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Fear, Hate, Giving Love
Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1971). “Self-realization”

If you are in a dark room, don’t beat at the darkness with a stick, but rather try to turn on the light

Paramahansa Yogananda
Dark, Light, Trying

Your success in life does not altogether depend on ability and training; it also depends on your determination to grasp opportunities that are presented to you.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Determination, Inspiration, Opportunity
Paramahansa Yogananda (2011). “The Law of Success: Using the Power of Spirit to Create Health, Prosperity, and Happiness”, p.4, BookBaby

When a man in the process of dreaming becomes conscious that he is dreaming, he is no longer identified with the phenomena; he is not affected exultantly or dolefully. God consciously dreams His cosmic play and is unaffected by it's dualities. A yogi who perceives his real self as separate from his active senses and their objects never becomes attached to anything. He is aware of the dream nature of the universe and watches it without being entangled in its complex but ephemeral nature.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Dream, Real, Men

Roam in the world as a lion of self-control; see that the frogs of weakness don’t kick you around.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Self, Weakness, World
Paramahansa Yogananda (2015). “Autobiography of a Yogi”, p.147, Sheba Blake Publishing

Why forgive one who wrongs you? Because if you angrily strike back you misrepresent your own divine soul nature-you are no better than your offender. But if you manifest spiritual strength you are blessed, and the power of your righteous behavior will also help the other person to overcome his misunderstanding.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Spiritual, Blessed, Soul
Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1969). “Self-realization Magazine”

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.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Book, Reading, Thinking

If you open the door to the magnetic power of friendship, souls of like vibrations will be attracted to you.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Doors, Soul, Vibrations

The time will come when mankind will begin to get away from the consciousness of needing so many material things. More security and peace will be found in the simple life.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Simple, Consciousness, Found
Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1984). “Self-realization”

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.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Spiritual, Men, Self
Paramahansa Yogananda (2016). “Autobiography of a Yogi: (Complete Edition)”, p.166, Yogoda Satsanga Society of India

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