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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.

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

What you are is much greater than anything or anyone else you have ever yearned for. God is manifest in you in a way that He is not manifest in any other human being. Your face is unlike anyone else's, your soul is unlike anyone else's, you are sufficient unto yourself; for within your soul lies the greatest treasure of all - God.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Lying, Greatest Treasure, Soul

Is a diamond less valuable because it is covered with mud? God sees the changeless beauty of our souls. He knows we are not our mistakes.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Mistake, Soul, Mud

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.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Men, Thinking, Soul

The soul is bound to the body by a chain of desires, temptations, troubles and worries, and it is trying to free itself. If you keep tugging at that chain which is holding you to mortal consciousness, some day an invisible Divine Hand will intervene and snap it apart and you will be free.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Hands, Worry, Soul
Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1963). “Self-realization Magazine”

The true basis of religion is not belief, but intuitive experience. Intuition is the soul’s power of knowing God. To know what religion is really all about, one must know God.

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

Love is the Song of the Soul singing to God.

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

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”

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

As God is omnipresent in the cosmos but is undisturbed by its variety, so man, who as a soul is individualized Spirit, must learn to participate in this cosmic drama with a perfectly poised and equilibrated mind.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Drama, Men, Soul

What you lose in the world will not be a loss to your soul.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Loss, Soul, World

As you find your soul-reservoir of peace, less and less controversy will be able to afflict your life.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Spiritual, Soul, Passionate

Intuition is soul guidance, appearing naturally in man during those instants when his mind is calm.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Men, Soul, Intuition
Paramahansa Yogananda (2016). “Autobiography of a Yogi”, p.211, Paramahansa Yogananda

To work with God's happiness bubbling in the soul is to carry a portable paradise within you wherever you go.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Soul, Paradise, Autobiography Of A Yogi

Through the orifice of silence, the whole geyser of Bliss, perpetually shoots up and flows over the soul.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Silence, Soul, Flow

You had to fight to get into the womb. Not only you but many souls rushed to enter, and the ones that won are you, and you and I. It was not an easy victory.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Fighting, Soul, Victory
Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1969). “Self-realization Magazine”

Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God; that you do not have to pray that it come to you; that God’s omnipresence is your omnipresence; and that all that you need to do is improve your knowing.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Self, Knowing, Soul

Mankind is engaged in an eternal quest for that ‘something else' he hopes will bring him happiness, complete and unending.For those individual souls who have sought and found God, the search is over: He is that Something Else.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Soul, Quests, Individual
Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1974). “Self-realization”

The ocean of Spirit has become the little bubble of my soul. Whether floating in birth, or disappearing in death, in the ocean of cosmic awareness the bubble of my life cannot die. I am indestructible consciousness, protected in the bosom of Spirit’s immortality.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Ocean, Soul, Littles
Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1956). “Self-realization Magazine”

Music that is saturated with soul force is the real universal music, understandable by all hearts.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Real, Heart, Soul

Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God.

Paramahansa Yogananda
Self, Knowing, Soul

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

Paramahansa Yogananda
Soul, Quality, Sincerity

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