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Ignoring all prejudices of caste, creed, class, color, sex, or race, a swami follows the precepts of human brotherhood. His goal is absolute unity with Spirit. (Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes)
The yogi should meditate on a firm seat, one that is clean - untainted by dirt or unspiritual vibrations of others. The thought or life force emanating from an individual saturates the objects he uses and his dwelling. (Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes)
Extend the boundaries of the glowing kingdom of your love, gradually including your family, your neighbors, your community, your country, all countries -- all living sentient creatures. (Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes)
Sri Yukteswar showed no special consideration to those who happened to be powerful or accomplished; neither did he slight others for their poverty or illiteracy. He would listen respectfully to words of truth from a child, and openly ignore a conceited pundit. (Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes)
The Western day is indeed nearing when the inner science of self-control will be found as necessary as the outer conquest of nature. This new Atomic Age will see men’s minds sobered and broadened by the now scientifically indisputable truth that matter is in reality a concentrate of energy. (Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes)
The man who has perceived God looks upon all types of men as dream motion-picture images, made of the relativities of the light of Cosmic Consciousness and the shadows of delusion. (Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes)
Cosmic energy enters the body through the medulla and then passes to the cerebrum, in which it is stored or concentrated. (Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes)
The ordinary man considers solids and liquids and the energy manifestations of the material world to be vastly different, but the yogi sees them as various vibrations of the one cosmic light. (Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes)
Before embarking on important undertakings sit quietly calm your senses and thoughts and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the great creative power of Spirit. (Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes)
The ideal of an all-sided education for youth had always been close to my heart. I saw clearly the arid results of ordinary instruction, aimed only at the development of body and intellect. (Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes)
All honest work is good work; it is capable of leading to self-development, provided the doer seeks to discover the inherent lessons and makes the most of the potentialities for such growth. (Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes)
I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future. (Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes)
Seeds of past karma cannot germinate if they are roasted in the fires of divine wisdom (Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes)
Beginning with the early dawn of each day, I will radiate joy to everyone I meet. I will be mental sunshine for all who cross my path. Before the unfailing light of my cheer, darkness will take flight. (Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes)
As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don’t let Him down, and so long as you make the effort. (Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes)
To allot God a secondary place in life was, to me, inconceivable. Though He is the sole Owner of the cosmos, silently showering us with gifts from life to life, one thing yet remains which He does not own, and which each human heart is empowered to withhold or bestow - man’s love. (Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes)
When you exercise your will power you release the power of life energy - not when you merely wish passively to be able to obtain an objective. (Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes)
Absolute, unquestioning faith in God is the greatest method of instantaneous healing. An unceasing effort to arouse that faith is man’s highest and most rewarding duty. (Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes)
When the yogi starts to meditate, he must leave behind all sensory thoughts and all longings for possessions by quieting the waves of feeling (chitta), and the mental restlessness that arises therefrom, through the application of techniques that reinstate the controlling power of the untrammeled superconsciousness of the soul. (Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes)
Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to your own clearest understanding. you must long for freedom as the drowning man longs for air. Without sincere longing, you will never find God. (Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes)
All Nature will commune with you when you are in tune with God. Realization of this truth will make you a master of your destiny. (Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes)
Truths are more than imagination; they are real. Yet their origin is a thought in the mind of God. (Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes)
As a broken microphone cannot broadcast a message, so a restless mind cannot transmit prayers to God (Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes)
Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others (Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes)
Yoga is a method for restraining the natural turbulence of thoughts, which otherwise impartially prevent all men, of all lands, from glimpsing their true nature of Spirit. Yoga cannot know a barrier of East and West any more than does the healing and equitable light of the sun. (Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others (Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes)
Live each moment completely and the future will take care of itself. Fully enjoy the wonder and beauty of each moment (Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes)
Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept! (Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes)
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success (Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes)