To be happy, you must live in, but not for, the present moment. Goswami Kriyananda More Quotes by Goswami Kriyananda More Quotes From Goswami Kriyananda Trust life, even if you cannot trust people. For human nature is unreliable, but life itself is ruled by immutable law. Right action leads always, in the end, to victory. Goswami Kriyananda trust nature life I know that everybody is seeking bliss. And they're all looking for it mostly in the wrong ways, and as a result of that, they err, but there's no reason to hate them; they just don't know any better. Jesus himself on the cross said, "Forgive them, for they know not what they do." And so people who hate you, that's their problem. It doesn't have to be your problem. I wish them well. Goswami Kriyananda hate people jesus Whatever you experience outwardly, take it within yourself and say 'I'm happy because I'm happy. I'm happy because God is in my heart.' Goswami Kriyananda my-heart heart happiness A deliberate attitude that you have to hold in your mind as one of the basic rules of yoga is to remain even-minded and cheerful. Goswami Kriyananda yoga attitude happiness But what is your true self is the God within you who became you, and when you realize that you are not yourself but you are he, then you discover that you and he are one, just as Jesus said. Jesus was a great master, and he had great teachings for the world, and when it says in the Bible, "All those who received him, to them gave the power to become the sons of God." Goswami Kriyananda teaching son jesus There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others. Goswami Kriyananda kindness appreciation reality It's not insincere to say you're happy if your determined to make it true and live in that consciousness. Goswami Kriyananda determined consciousness happiness You can accept it that it may be true what somebody else says, but until you have experienced it, it is not dynamic to your own awareness. Goswami Kriyananda accepting awareness may If you begin to identify yourself with that inner awareness, and then you realize you're not really doing anything. As long as there's the thought, "I'm trying to wake up," that thought of "I" is still there. Goswami Kriyananda wake-up trying long If anything or anyone distresses you, think how you'll feel a week - a month - a year later. If you can imagine yourself being happy and peaceful then, why waste all that time? Be happy and peaceful now. Goswami Kriyananda peaceful years thinking The truth is that we are a part of God. God could not have created anything except out of his own consciousness. We're all his dream, and our duty in life that God has assigned to us, that the universe has placed squarely in our laps, is to find out who we really are. "Gnothi seauton," as the Greeks used to say. "Know thyself." But to know thyself, if you trace it back, to the deeper and deeper levels, you discover that that self is not your body or your ego or your personality or your country or anything, that's just a sack of self-definitions that you carry around with you Goswami Kriyananda self dream country Be able to laugh at difficulties. Goswami Kriyananda able happiness laughing Happiness is self-generated. It depends on one's attitude of mind. The basis of happiness, is the simple fact that the deepest reality of our own nature is ever-existing, ever-conscious, ever-new joy. Goswami Kriyananda simple attitude happiness The greatest thing that will please God is that you maintain an attitude of unshakable joy. Goswami Kriyananda joy attitude happiness Your enemy is still yourself. You don't have enemies. They may be self-styled. I have plenty of self-styled enemies. I don't wish them harm. Goswami Kriyananda self wish enemy So what Jesus taught must be understood from the deepest level and that is one of the best sayings to show that he was talking in that way. In the book Revelations from Christ, I found out something that Yogananda said. That Jesus had said son of men and son of God, and people often misunderstand so sometimes the translations themselves are wrong for that reason. So when he said son of man he meant his human body and personality. When he said son of God, he meant the infinite Christ consciousness with which he'd obtained oneness. Goswami Kriyananda book son jesus The mastery of any subject requires that one identify himself with the particular state of consciousness appropriate to that subject. Goswami Kriyananda mastery consciousness states Laughter is a medicine you've got to use to drive away blues. Goswami Kriyananda medicine laughter happiness Master said if you want to be happy no one in the world can take happiness from you; if you want to be unhappy, no one in the world can make you happy. So choose to be happy. Goswami Kriyananda unhappy happiness world The thing is that the ego cannot cure itself of its own malady of egoism; it's already infected by the disease itself. And that is why it is necessary to go to a guru who knows God and by absorbing his consciousness into yourself, you discover that you aren't this ego. You cross that abyss and you find that you are infinite. Goswami Kriyananda ego consciousness disease
