To me there is no difference between one person and another; I behold all as soul-reflection s of the one God. I can't think of anyone as a stranger, for I know that we are all part of the One Spirit. Paramahansa Yogananda More Quotes by Paramahansa Yogananda More Quotes From Paramahansa Yogananda Another qualification of success is that we not only bring harmonious and beneficial results to ourselves, but also share those benefits with others. Paramahansa Yogananda benefits results share Our great whirling planet, our human individuality, were not given to us merely that we might exist for a time and then vanish into nothingness, but that we might question what it is all about. Paramahansa Yogananda individuality understanding order Do your best and then relax. Let things go on in a natural way, rather than force them. Paramahansa Yogananda relax goes-on way Making others happy, through kindness of speech and sincerity of right advice, is a sign of true greatness. To hurt another soul by sarcastic words, looks, or suggestions, is despicable. Paramahansa Yogananda sarcastic hurt kindness If you possess happiness you possess everything: to be happy is to be in tune with God. Paramahansa Yogananda tunes attitude happiness Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He who has fled his Self in earthly joys will not recapture It amidst the gossamer charms of an astral world. There he merely accumulates finer perceptions and more sensitive responses to the beautiful and the good, which are one. It is on the anvil of this gross earth that struggling man must hammer out the imperishable gold of spiritual identity. Paramahansa Yogananda spiritual beautiful death The soul's first adventure is the fight between two ideas: the wish to return to earth in a human form, and the desire to feel the freedom of having no form. Paramahansa Yogananda fighting adventure ideas Extend the boundaries of the glowing kingdom of your love, gradually including your family, your neighbors, your community, your country, all countries -- all living sentient creatures. Paramahansa Yogananda glowing love country An adept of Kriya Yoga conquers death by taking the soul beyond identification with the physical body, consciously and at will; and then returning to the consciousness of the mortal form again. By this process, he experiences the body as merely the material dwelling place of the soul. He can remain therein as long as he wants; and after that body has fulfilled its usefulness, he can quit it at will without suffering physical pain or mental pain due to attachment, and enter his omnipresent home in God. Paramahansa Yogananda pain yoga death The time will come when mankind will begin to get away from the consciousness of needing so many material things. More security and peace will be found in the simple life. Paramahansa Yogananda consciousness simple found When we serve others, we serve ourselves. Do not think, I will help others - think rather, I will help my own, my world, because I cannot otherwise be happy. Paramahansa Yogananda helping-others appreciation thinking If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your destiny. Paramahansa Yogananda destiny strong determination Those persons who have perceptive eyes enjoy beauty everywhere. Paramahansa Yogananda beauty-everywhere enjoy eye At physical death man loses his consciousness of the flesh and becomes conscious of his astral body in the astral world. Thus physical death is astral birth. Later, he passes from the consciousness of luminous astral birth to the consciousness of dark astral death and awakens in a new physical body. Thus astral death is physical birth. These recurrent cycles of physical and astral encasements are the ineluctable destiny of all unenlightened men. Paramahansa Yogananda destiny dark death As water by cooling and condensation becomes ice, so thought by condensation assumes physical form. Everything in the universe is thought in material form. Paramahansa Yogananda assuming ice water I relax and cast aside all mental burdens, allowing God to express through me His perfect love, peace, and wisdom. Paramahansa Yogananda burden relax perfect When you make up your mind to do good things, you will accomplish them if you use dynamic will power to follow through. No matter what the circumstances are, if you go on trying, God will create the means by which your will shall find its proper reward. Paramahansa Yogananda mind trying mean You must know the difference between imagination, theoretical knowledge and true realization. Could you nourish yourself by only listening to a talk on food? To know food only theoretically is to always remain hungry. You must eat to satisfy hunger. So he who seeks new doctrines continuously but does not put them into practice in his life is in continual spiritual starvation. Paramahansa Yogananda differences practice spiritual Beginning with the early dawn of each day, I will radiate joy to everyone I meet. I will be mental sunshine for all who cross my path. Before the unfailing light of my cheer, darkness will take flight. Paramahansa Yogananda sunshine cheer light You may control a mad elephant; You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger; Ride the lion and play with the cobra; By alchemy you may learn your livelihood; You may wander through the universe incognito; Make vassals of the gods; be ever youthful; You may walk in water and live in fire; But control of the mind is better and more difficult. Paramahansa Yogananda elephants fire play
