Top 350 Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “The true basis of religion is not belief, but intuitive experience. Intuition is the soul’s power of knowing God. To know what religion is really all about, one must know God.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

152. “Affirm divine calmness and peace, and send out only thoughts of love and goodwill if you want to live in peace and harmony. Never get angry, for anger poisons your system.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

153. “Never do anything that taints your mind. Wrong actions cause negative or evil mental vibrations that are reflected in your whole appearance and personality. Engage in those actions and thoughts that nurture the good qualities you want to have.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

154. “Have the unflinching determination to move on your path unhampered by limiting thoughts of past errors.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

155. “When, by meditation, we withdraw restless thoughts from the lake of the mind, we behold our soul, a perfect reflection of Spirit.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

156. “Find god – he isn’t hiding from you, you’re hiding from him.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

157. “Most people consider the course of events as natural and inevitable. They little know what radical changes are possible through prayer.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

158. “Many people excuse their own faults but judge other persons harshly. We should reverse this attitude by excusing others’ shortcomings and by harshly examining our own.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

159. “Those persons who have perceptive eyes enjoy beauty everywhere.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

160. “Through love and sincerity continuously beautify your inner life in every way, by daily looking into the mirror of introspection.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

161. “By the definite science of meditation known for millenniums to the yogis and sages of India, and to Jesus, any seeker of God can enlarge the caliber of his consciousness to omniscience to receive within himself the Universal Intelligence of God.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

162. “If you possess happiness you possess everything: to be happy is to be in tune with God.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

163. “The more you meditate, the more helpful you can be to others, and the more deeply you will be in tune with God.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

164. “An artist doesn’t really create anything – he just rearranges what is already there.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

165. “With the realization of God comes all power. If the little wave knew that behind it is the great ocean, it could say, “I am the ocean.” You should realize that just behind your consciousness is the Ocean of God.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

166. “Before embarking on important undertakings sit quietly calm your senses and thoughts and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the great creative power of Spirit.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

167. “A saying from the Hindu scriptures is: “In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

168. “Devote your entire will power to mastering one thing at a time; do not scatter your energies, nor leave something half done to begin a new venture.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

169. “Never be petty. Do not feed resentments against anyone. I prefer good-hearted sinners to so called good people who are intolerant and devoid of compassion. Being spiritual is to have an open mind, understand and forgive, and be friends with everyone.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

170. “As God is omnipresent in the cosmos but is undisturbed by its variety, so man, who as a soul is individualized Spirit, must learn to participate in this cosmic drama with a perfectly poised and equilibrated mind.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

171. “Success is not rightly measured by wealth, prestige and power. Success is measured by the yardstick of happiness.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

172. “Moral: Look fear in the face and it will cease to trouble you.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

173. “Sing songs that none have sung.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

174. “Spirit is the vast stillness which is behind all created things.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

175. “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

176. “The one who pursues a goal of evenmindedness is neither jubilant with gain nor depressed by loss.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

177. “You do not have to struggle to reach God, but you do have to struggle to tear away the self-created veil that hides him from you.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

178. “Do not think of yourself as the body, but as the joyous consciousness and immortal life behind it.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

179. “Medicine has its limitations, Life Force has none.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

180. “When you worry, there is static coming through your mind radio. God’s song is the song of calmness. Nervousness is the static; calmness is the voice of God speaking to you through the radio of your soul.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

181. “The Spirit of God, I realized, is exhaustless Bliss; His body is countless tissues of light.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

182. “As a broken microphone cannot broadcast a message, so a restless mind cannot transmit prayers to God.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

183. “Your part is to awaken your desire to accomplish your worthy objectives. Then whip your will into action until it follows the way of wisdom that is shown to you.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

184. “One cannot tell when he is going to be healed, so do not try to set an exact time limit. Faith, not time, will determine when the cure will be effected.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

185. “The more deeply we perceive, the more striking becomes the evidence that a uniform plan links every form in manifold nature.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

186. “Softer than the flower, where kindness is concerned; stronger than the thunder, where principles are at stake.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

187. “If you don’t invite God to be your summer Guest, He won’t come in the winter of your life.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

188. “Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

189. “God is love. His plan for creation can only be rooted in love. Does not that simple thought, rather than erudite reasoning, offer solace to the human heart?”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

190. “From joy people are born; for joy they live; in joy they melt at death. Death is an ecstasy, for it removes the burden of the body and frees the soul of all pain springing from body identification. It is the cessation of pain and sorrow.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

191. “Seeds of past karma cannot germinate if they are roasted in the fires of divine wisdom.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

192. “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

193. “The rejuvenating effects of sleep are due to man’s temporary unawareness of body and breathing. The sleeping man becomes a yogi; each night he unconsciously performs the yogic rite of releasing himself from bodily identification, and of merging the life force with healing currents in the main brain region and in the six subdynamos of his spinal centres. Unknowingly, the sleeper is thus recharged by the cosmic energy that sustains all life.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

194. “When you learn to get along with yourself, you will know how to get along with everybody.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

195. “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

196. “I shall remold my consciousness. In this new year I am a new person. And I shall change my consciousness again and again until I have driven away all the darkness of ignorance and manifested the shining light of Spirit in whose image I am made.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

197. “When you learn to live for others, they will live for you.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

198. “As a mortal being you are limited, but as a child of God you are unlimited... Focus your attention on God, and you shall have all the power you want, to use in any direction.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

199. “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

200. “To fly away from problems may seem the easiest solution. But you gain strength only when you wrestle with a strong opponent. One who doesn’t have difficulties is one who doesn’t grow.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda