What are you afraid of? You are an immortal being. You are neither a man nor a woman, as you may think, but a soul - joyous, eternal. Paramahansa Yogananda More Quotes by Paramahansa Yogananda More Quotes From Paramahansa Yogananda This world is not the same to all people. Each one lives in his little domain....Peace and harmony may reign in one person's world; where strife and restlessness in anothers. But whatever the circumstances of one's environment, it consists of both an inner and an outer world. The outside world is the one in which your life engages in action and interaction. The world inside of you determines your happiness or unhappiness. Paramahansa Yogananda maypeopleworld Release for constructive purposes the power you already have, and more will come. Move on your path with unflinching determination, using all the attributes of success. Tune yourself with the creative power of spirit. Paramahansa Yogananda creativedeterminationmoving A saint is a sinner who never gave up. Paramahansa Yogananda gave-upsinnersaint Those who are unconquered in spirit are the real successes in life. If you can so train or condition your mind that you are content regardless of what you have or do not have, and if you can stand the challenge of all your trials and remain calm-that is true happiness. Paramahansa Yogananda realchallengesmind The way to liberation lies through this realization of the Self, by God-communion and by remaining in this God-aware state of the soul while performing dutiful actions. Any individual can reach this supreme actionless state by the renunciation of all fruits of actions: performing all dutiful acts without harbouring in his heart any likes and dislikes, possessing no material desires, and feeling God, not the ego, as the Doer of all actions. Paramahansa Yogananda likes-and-dislikesheartlying Mind is the creator of everything. Paramahansa Yogananda creatormind Most people consider the course of events as natural and inevitable. They little know what radical changes are possible through prayer. Paramahansa Yogananda radical-changeprayerpeople Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution. Paramahansa Yogananda growthevolutioncoercion It is better to meditate a little bit with depth than to mediate long with the mind running here and there. If you do not make an effort to control the mind it will go on doing as it pleases, no matter how long you sit to meditate. Paramahansa Yogananda inspirationpracticerunning No action is ever an isolated event. Always, it invites from the universe a reaction that corresponds exactly to the type and the force of energy behind the deed. Paramahansa Yogananda eventsenergydeeds Words saturated with sincerity, conviction, faith, and intuition are like highly explosive vibration bombs, which, when set off, shatter the rocks of difficulties and create the change desired. Paramahansa Yogananda yogachangefaith Those in the West who have adopted Christ as their own should remember that he was an Oriental. Love and sympathy for Jesus should be expanded into love and sympathy for all Orientals, and for all the world. Paramahansa Yogananda westworldjesus The Divine has loved me as mother, as father, and as friend, behind all friends. I searched for that one Friend behind all friends, that one lover whom I now see glimmering in all your faces. And that friend never fails me. Paramahansa Yogananda motherfacesfather Self-realization may be and sometimes is attained even by people who are struggling with sick and otherwise imperfect bodies; but it cannot be attained unless one can concentrate and meditate uninterruptedly upon God. Paramahansa Yogananda struggleselfpeople Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws. Paramahansa Yogananda lawsuccesshappiness The greatest dread of ordinary man is death, with its rude imposition interrupting fortuitous plans and fondest attachments with an unknown and unwelcome change. The yogi is a conqueror of the grief associated with death. By control of mind and life force and the development of wisdom, he makes friends with the change of consciousness called death-he becomes familiar with the state of inner calmness and aloofness from identification with the mortal body. Paramahansa Yogananda griefmendeath The kingdom of God is just behind the darkness of closed eyes, and the first gate that opens to it is your peace. Paramahansa Yogananda eyemeditationdarkness The ocean of Spirit has become the little bubble of my soul. Whether floating in birth, or disappearing in death, in the ocean of cosmic awareness the bubble of my life cannot die. I am indestructible consciousness, protected in the bosom of Spirit’s immortality. Paramahansa Yogananda oceansoullittles When the # mind is strong and the # heart is pure, Paramahansa Yogananda strongmindheart Little stones that are pelted into the lake of consciousness should not throw the whole lake into commotion. Paramahansa Yogananda changestoneslakes
