Environment is of supreme importance. It is greater than will power. Paramahansa Yogananda More Quotes by Paramahansa Yogananda More Quotes From Paramahansa Yogananda Roam in the world as a lion of self-control; see that the frogs of weakness don’t kick you around. Paramahansa Yogananda weakness self world Gandhi has sound economic and cultural reasons for encouraging the revival of cottage industries, but he does not counsel a fanatical repudiation of all modern progress. Machinery, trains, automobiles, the telegraph have played important parts in his own colossal life! Fifty years of public service, in prison and out, wrestling daily with practical details and harsh realities in the political world, have only increased his balance, open-mindedness, sanity, and humorous appreciation of the quaint human spectacle. Paramahansa Yogananda humorous appreciation wrestling Intuition is soul guidance, appearing naturally in man during those instants when his mind is calm. Paramahansa Yogananda intuition soul men 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 focus attention children Intuition is the discriminative faculty that enables you to decide which of two lines of reasoning is right. Perfect intuition makes you a master of all. Paramahansa Yogananda intuition perfect two When you yearn for God with intensity, He will come to you. Paramahansa Yogananda intensity Divisions are imaginary lines drawn by small minds. Paramahansa Yogananda division lines mind Meditation is like giving a hug to our ourselves, getting in touch whith that awesome reality in us. While meditating we feel a deep sense of intimacy with God, a love that is inexplicable. Paramahansa Yogananda meditation giving reality With the realization of God comes all power. If the little wave knew that behind it is the great ocean, it could say, "I am the ocean." You should realize that just behind your consciousness is the Ocean of God. Paramahansa Yogananda ocean realization inspiration It is blessedness for yourself and others if you are happy. Paramahansa Yogananda blessedness ifs From joy people are born; for joy they live; in joy they melt at death. Death is an ecstasy, for it removes the burden of the body and frees the soul of all pain springing from body identification. It is the cessation of pain and sorrow. Paramahansa Yogananda pain death people The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom. Paramahansa Yogananda shy angel men If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty. Paramahansa Yogananda quality evil looks Know that this universe is nothing but a dream bluff of nature to test your consciousness of immortality. Paramahansa Yogananda tests spiritual dream Stillness is the altar of spirit. Paramahansa Yogananda stillness altars spirit Never be petty. Do not feed resentments against anyone. I prefer good-hearted sinners to so called good people who are intolerant and devoid of compassion. Being spiritual is to have an open mind, understand and forgive, and be friends with everyone. Paramahansa Yogananda compassion wisdom spiritual A genuine smile distributes the cosmic current, Prana to every body cell.The happy man is less subject to disease, for happiness actually attracts into the body a greater supply of the Universal life energy. Paramahansa Yogananda smile cells men Work for god, love god alone, and be wise with god. When an ordinary man puts the necessary rime and enthusiasm into meditation and prayer, he becomes a divine man. Paramahansa Yogananda prayer god wise Love cannot be had for the asking; it comes only as a gift from the heart of another Paramahansa Yogananda asking heart Spirit vibrated into matter; hence, both Spirit and matter exist. Matter, however, does not exist in the way that it appears to us. It exists as we see it owing to the delusive force of maya, which makes the indivisible Spirit seem finite and divisible to all appearances. Matter has existence in the same delusive way as does a mirage in the desert. Paramahansa Yogananda mirages desert doe
