Environment is of supreme importance. It is greater than will power. Paramahansa Yogananda More Quotes by Paramahansa Yogananda More Quotes From Paramahansa Yogananda Each minute of life should be a divine quest. Paramahansa Yogananda quests focus mindfulness Thoughts are universally and not individually rooted; a truth cannot be created, but only perceived. The erroneous thoughts of man result from imperfections in his discernment. The goal of Yoga Science is to calm the mind, that without distortion it may mirror the Divine vision in the Universe. Paramahansa Yogananda yoga mirrors men 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. Paramahansa Yogananda purpose life needs Self-realization is, in fact, the only religion. For it is the true purpose of religion, no matter how people define their beliefs. Paramahansa Yogananda self people religion Find god - he isn't hiding from you, you're hiding from him. Paramahansa Yogananda hiding thinking Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations. Paramahansa Yogananda discipline self spiritual 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 victory fighting soul Spirit is the vast stillness which is behind all created things. Paramahansa Yogananda behinds stillness spirit As you forget self in service to others, you will find that, without seeking it, your own cup of happiness will be full. Paramahansa Yogananda cups self forget By the definite science of meditation known for millenniums to the yogis and sages of India, and to Jesus, any seeker of God can enlarge the caliber of his consciousness to omniscience to receive within himself the Universal Intelligence of God. Paramahansa Yogananda india meditation jesus The Spirit of God, I realized, is exhaustless Bliss; His body is countless tissues of light. Paramahansa Yogananda tissues body light Self-realization means to know truth through yourself, and not through others. By seeking God first, through Self-realization, all things-strength, power, prosperity, wisdom, health, and immortality-will be added unto you. Paramahansa Yogananda realization self mean Nothing may truly be said to be a miracle except in the profound sense that everything is a miracle. Paramahansa Yogananda miracle may profound Births and deaths are inevitable for man only during the state of ignorance in which he thinks he is the body and cannot exist without it. Only the man who will not seek the awakening of wisdom must suffer the nightmares and delusive dreams of births and deaths and the fanciful miseries and limitations attending them. (gt) Paramahansa Yogananda ignorance dream death World' is a large term, but man must enlarge his allegiance, considering himself in the light of a world citizen... A person who truly feels: 'The world is my homeland; it is my America, my India, my Philippines, my England, my Africa,' will never lack scope for a useful and happy life. His natural local pride will know limitless expansion; he will be in touch with creative universal currents. Paramahansa Yogananda pride men happy-life God-realization is attained only by great effort on the part of the yogi and by divine grace. Paramahansa Yogananda effort realization grace Every morning I offer my body, my mind and any ability that I posses, to be used by Thee, O infinite creator, in whatever way Thou dost choose to express Thyself through me. I know that all work is Thy work, and that no task is too difficult or too menial when offered to Thee in loving service. Paramahansa Yogananda tasks mind morning Success is hastened or delayed by one's habits. Paramahansa Yogananda delayed habit 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. Paramahansa Yogananda grief dream death Take life as it comes and death as it comes. Death is really beautiful; if it were a bad thing, God would not let it happen to us. It is really freedom, an entry into another, higher life. We must utilize this life in order to realize the life beyond this one. Beyond this earth garden is the infinite land wherein we meet those whom we have thought lost. Although we must not seek death, when it comes we should know that it is the final examination for a great reward. Paramahansa Yogananda garden beautiful death
