Top 385 Quotes & Sayings by Paramahansa Yogananda - Page 7

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.

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."

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

The things you need in life are those that will help you to fulfill your dominant purpose. Things you may want but not need may lead you aside from that purpose. It is only by making everything serve your main objective that success is attained.

He who finds joy within himself discovers that his body is charged with electric current, life energy, not from food but from God.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Ever-new Joy is God. He is inexhaustible; as you continue your meditations during the years, He will beguile you with an infinite ingenuity. Devotees like yourself who have found the way to God never dream of exchanging Him for any other happiness; He is seductive beyond thought of competition.

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.

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

Death is only an experience through which you are meant to learn a great lesson: you cannot die.

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.

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?

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

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

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?

To face death itself should not daunt you. Fear of death is ridiculous, because as long as you are not dead you are alive, and when you are dead there is noting more to worry about!

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.