Happiness is a question of attitude, not a question of what's happening out there. Goswami Kriyananda More Quotes by Goswami Kriyananda More Quotes From Goswami Kriyananda See what is worth learning, and what is worth doing. Thus, you gain an understanding of what is vital, and what is not vital. You need to learn what is important and what is not important. You need to understand what will move you upwards and onwards, and what will hinder you from traveling the higher path. Goswami Kriyananda understanding important moving Realize that to have friends one must first be a friend. Make friendship a priority in your life. Goswami Kriyananda priorities realizing firsts My master's visualizations were so powerful their condensation into matter was mere signature. Donald Walters, formerly Kriyananda, author of The Path about his guru Yogananda. Goswami Kriyananda signatures achievement powerful Become more and more centered in the Self. To live more and more in the thought that God is here in your consciousness. Goswami Kriyananda consciousness self happiness If it (the good circumstances) changes will you be able to keep onto your happiness just as much? Because if not then your happiness is really built on sand. Goswami Kriyananda sand able happiness As you begin this day, tell yourself, Today I am incarnated anew! I am released from the hypnosis of my old habits and mistakes! Everything that I have long dreamed of doing I will accomplish in this, my new life. Goswami Kriyananda old-habits mistake life The secret of friendship is expressing kindness with your eyes and through the tone of your voice, not only with words. Goswami Kriyananda voice eye kindness Live more quietly. Live more seeking God's presence in your own heart. Goswami Kriyananda seeking-god heart happiness Maturity is the ability to relate appropriately to other realities than one's own. Goswami Kriyananda ability maturity reality Understand that there is no relationship between your inner happiness and your inner joy and the outer things that you experience and behold in the world, that it all begins with you, the world is a mirror to your own Self, when you can look at things and feel joy not in the things but in yourself. Goswami Kriyananda mirrors self happiness I've've seen some people like this that no matter what happens they've got something cheerful to feel about it. It's not always easy, but if we do it as a deliberate sward of battle rather then thinking 'Well, I'm not really feeling that way and therefore I shouldn't say that I am'. No! Make yourself that way! Goswami Kriyananda happiness people thinking The churches had left me cold, but I thought there's got to be a God. I remember going out, this is in Charleston, South Carolina, and my desire then was to be a playwright, and I was studying theater, and I went out one night, late at night, and I asked, "What can God be if there is a God?" I wasn't sure there was a God, but if there is a God, what must he be? Well, he can't be a judge, who's up there just waiting for us to make a mistake so he can clap us into hell. There's got to be something more than that. Goswami Kriyananda if-there-is-a-god mistake night That's what life is for, to find that joy in yourself. Goswami Kriyananda life-is joy happiness Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self- importance. Goswami Kriyananda acceptance self opportunity Don't live to be unhappy, live to be happy. If you live to be happy you'll find the things that make you happy. And as you do that you find that sharing with others makes you much happier than taking from them. Goswami Kriyananda make-you-happy unhappy happiness Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment. Goswami Kriyananda laughter struggle happiness Happiness is a smile of comfort to the sorrowful. Goswami Kriyananda sorrowful comfort happiness Learn to live more in the Self. Come down a little bit to eat and talk as necessary. Goswami Kriyananda self littles happiness Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake. Goswami Kriyananda inner-peace understanding happiness We've got to be long distance runners on the spiritual path. We want to run as fast as we can, but at the same time realize that if God isn't at the end of that 100 yards, we don't fall flat of exhaustion. We've got to have whatever rhythm it takes to be able to go on for incarnations until we find that state of perfection we've been seeking. Goswami Kriyananda spiritual running happiness
