By the practice of meditation, you will find that you are carrying within your heart a portable paradise. Paramahansa Yogananda More Quotes by Paramahansa Yogananda More Quotes From Paramahansa Yogananda Subtle astral colors... are hidden in everything around you. Could you but see, you would be amazed at their beauty. Paramahansa Yogananda subtle color would-be 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! Paramahansa Yogananda worry long death 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. Paramahansa Yogananda gone wonder years Those who are socially inclined will find a new power to help humanity through the lessons of books written by noble and gifted people. Paramahansa Yogananda power book people Music that is saturated with soul force is the real universal music, understandable by all hearts. Paramahansa Yogananda real soul heart Death is only an experience through which you are meant to learn a great lesson: you cannot die. Paramahansa Yogananda near-death lessons death Faithfulness in the performance of small duties gives us strength to adhere to difficult determinations that life will someday force us to make. Paramahansa Yogananda yoga determination life Calmness is the living breath of God's immortality in you. Paramahansa Yogananda calmness calm immortality 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? Paramahansa Yogananda simple god heart Forget your dream-born mortal weakness. Wake up and know that you and God are one. Paramahansa Yogananda wake-up weakness dream 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 best man freedom god The Creator, in taking infinite pains to shroud with mystery His presence in every atom of creation, could have had but one motive - a sensitive desire that men seek Him only through free will. Paramahansa Yogananda will free mystery men 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 good good-work growth work It is wisest to be impartial. If you have health, but are attached to it, you will always be afraid of losing it. And if you fear that loss, but become ill, you will suffer. Why not remain forever joyful in the Self? Paramahansa Yogananda you health self fear 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 unity brotherhood color sex 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 man light energy world Many great works of art, poetry, and music are inspired by astral memories. The desire to do noble, beautiful things here on Earth is also often a carryover of astral experiences between a person's earth lives. Paramahansa Yogananda music beautiful memories art The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement. Paramahansa Yogananda man nature soul self This life is not man's own show; if he becomes personally and emotionally involved in the very complicated cosmic drama, he reaps inevitable suffering for having distorted the divine 'plot.' Paramahansa Yogananda man complicated suffering life Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents. Paramahansa Yogananda silence mind together life
