We do not always see the things that are nearest to us. We pass by riches that lie close at hand and chase after rainbows. Paramahansa Yogananda More Quotes by Paramahansa Yogananda More Quotes From Paramahansa Yogananda Harmony with nature will bring you a happiness known to few city dwellers. In the company of other truth seekers it will be easier for you to meditate and think of God. Paramahansa Yogananda cities god thinking Success is not rightly measured by the worldly standards of wealth, prestige and power. None of these bestow happiness unless they are rightly used. To use them rightly one must possess wisdom and love for God and man. Paramahansa Yogananda words-of-wisdom success men Build your inner environment. Practice Silence! I remember the wonderful discipline of the Great Ones. When we used to talk and chatter, they would say: "Go back into your inner castle." It was very hard to comprehend then, but now I understand the way of peace Paramahansa Yogananda discipline practice peace The spine is the highway to the Infinite. Your own body is the temple of God. It is within your own self that God must be realized. Paramahansa Yogananda temples body self Play your part in life, but never forget it is only a role. Paramahansa Yogananda never-forget roles play Come into the silence of solitude, and the vibration there will talk to you through the voice of God. Paramahansa Yogananda voice silence meditation It is a great mistake to regard a certain object as pleasurable in itself and to store the idea of it in the mind in hope of fulfilling a want by its actual presence in the future. If objects were pleasurable in themselves, then the same dress or food would always please everyone, which is not the case. Paramahansa Yogananda mind mistake ideas Love is the Song of the Soul singing to God. Paramahansa Yogananda soul song love-is From joy I came, for joy I live, in sacred joy I melt. Paramahansa Yogananda sacred joy In your heart must well that sympathy which soothes away all pains from the hearts of others. Paramahansa Yogananda pain compassion heart The body is only a garment. How many times you have changed your clothing in this life, yet because of this you would not say that you have changed. Similarly, when you give up this bodily dress at death you do not change. You are just the same, an immortal soul, a child of God. Paramahansa Yogananda giving-up death children People are so skillful in their ignorance! Paramahansa Yogananda skillful ignorance people Wise guidance never violates people's Free Will. A superior who demands obedience of his subordinates should show respect for their capacity to understand, and also for their Innate Right to their own Free Will. Paramahansa Yogananda respect wise people Death is not as terrible as you think. It comes to you as a healer. Sleep is nothing but a counterfeit death. What happens in death we can picture in sleep. All our sufferings vanish in sleep. When death comes, all our mortal tortures cease; they cannot go beyond the portals of death. Paramahansa Yogananda sleep death thinking If religion means primarily God-consciousness, or the realization of God both within and without, and secondarily a body of beliefs, tenets and dogmas, then, strictly speaking, there is but one religion in the world, for there is but one God. Paramahansa Yogananda realization mean world Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations. Paramahansa Yogananda wall kindness relationship Through the orifice of silence, the whole geyser of Bliss, perpetually shoots up and flows over the soul. Paramahansa Yogananda flow silence soul Everything is Spirit - in essence, though hidden in manifestation. If you had the perception, you would see God in everything. Paramahansa Yogananda perception essence spirit Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others. Paramahansa Yogananda self happiness lying Never neglect what you can do for yourself in the form of another. Paramahansa Yogananda neglect form can-do
