Top 350 Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “You must stand unshaken amidst the crash of breaking worlds.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

52. “Calmness is the living breath of God’s immortality in you.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

53. “Fearlessness means faith in God: faith in his protection, His justice, His wisdom, His mercy, His love, and His Omnipresence... To be fit for Self-realization man must be fearless.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

54. “Mind is the creator of everything.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

55. “I will be calmly active, actively calm. I am a prince of peace, sitting on the throne of poise, directing the kingdom of my activity.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

56. “Success is hastened or delayed by one’s habits. It is not your passing inspirations or brilliant ideas so much as your everyday mental habits that control your life.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

57. “Have only love in your heart for others. The more you see the good in them, the more you will establish good in yourself.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

58. “When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

59. “With right attitude, life is very simple and very easy.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

60. “Through the portals of silence the healing sun of wisdom and peace will shine upon you.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

61. “I am no longer the wave of consciousness thinking itself separated from the sea of cosmic consciousness. I am the ocean of Spirit that has become the wave of human life.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

62. “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

63. “Most of the world is like a mental hospital. Some persons are sick with jealousy, others with anger, hatred, passion. They are victims of their habits and emotions. But you can make your home a place of peace.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

64. “A saint is a sinner who never gave up.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

65. “Whenever you want to produce something, do not depend upon the outside source: go deep and seek the Infinite Source.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

66. “Love is the heartbeat of all life.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

67. “The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

68. “When you exercise your will power you release the power of life energy – not when you merely wish passively to be able to obtain an objective.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

69. “Success is hastened or delayed by one’s habits.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

70. “If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your destiny.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

71. “God is simple, everything else is complex.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

72. “Meditation is like giving a hug to our ourselves, getting in touch whith that awesome reality in us. While meditating we feel a deep sense of intimacy with God, a love that is inexplicable.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

73. “You are walking on the earth as in a dream. Our world is a dream within a dream; you must realize that to find God is the only goal, the only purpose, for which you are here. For Him alone you exist. Him you must find.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

74. “Every night in sleep God takes away all your troubles to show you that you are not a mortal being; you are spirit.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

75. “He who is persistent will realize God. So try your best to make meditation a regular experience in your life.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

76. “If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

77. “The wave is the same as the ocean, though it is not the whole ocean. So each wave of creation is a part of the eternal Ocean of Spirit. The Ocean can exist without the waves, but the waves cannot exist without the Ocean.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

78. “The deeper the Self-realization of a man, the more he influences the whole universe by his subtle spiritual vibrations, and the less he himself is affected by the phenomenal flux.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

79. “When you know God as peace within, then you will realize Him as peace existing in the universal harmony of all things without.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

80. “Bring into play the almighty power within you, so that on the stage of life you can fulfill your high destined role.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

81. “A harmonized mind produces harmony in this world of seeming discord.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

82. “People are running, running, but there is no place in the world to which they can flee to escape themselves. Ultimately, each one must face himself.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

83. “If you open the door to the magnetic power of friendship, souls of like vibrations will be attracted to you.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

84. “The seeker of God is the real lover of vidya, unchangeable truth; all else is avidya, relative knowledge.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

85. “Smiling away your troubles requires a clear conscience that harbors no insincerity.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

86. “Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

87. “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

88. “Forget the past. The vanished lives of all men are dark with many shames. Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the Divine. Everything in future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

89. “The Bhagavad-Gita is where God Himself talks to His devotee Arjuna.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

90. “Happiness blooms naturally in the hearts of those who are inwardly free. It flows spontaneously, like a mountain spring after April showers, in minds that are contented with simple living.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

91. “Remain quiet. Don’t feel you have to talk all the time. Go within and you will see the Loveliness behind all beauty.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

92. “He who conquers the mind, conquers the world.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

93. “Proper visualization by the exercise of concentration and willpower enables us to materialize thoughts, not only as dreams or visions in the mental realm, but also as experiences in the material realm.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

94. “We don’t become angels merely by the instrument of death. If we are angels now, we will be angels in the hereafter. If we are dark, negative personalities now, we will be the same after death.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

95. “He who finds joy within himself discovers that his body is charged with electric current, life energy, not from food but from God.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

96. “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

97. “Peace is the altar of God, the condition in which happiness exists.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

98. “Nothing may truly be said to be a miracle except in the profound sense that everything is a miracle.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

99. “We are all part of the One Spirit. When you experience the true meaning of religion, which is to know God, you will realize that He is your Self, and that He exists equally and impartially in all beings.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

100. “I relax and cast aside all mental burdens, allowing God to express through me His perfect love, peace, and wisdom.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda