Top 350 Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “The greatest romance is with the Infinite.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

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

— Paramahansa Yogananda

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

— Paramahansa Yogananda

154. “Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

155. “Just behind the darkness of closed eyes shines the light of God. When you behold that light in meditation, hold onto it with devotional zeal. Feel yourself inside it: That is where God dwells.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

156. “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

157. “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

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

— 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. “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

163. “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

164. “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

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

— Paramahansa Yogananda

166. “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

167. “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

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

— Paramahansa Yogananda

169. “Sing songs that none have sung.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

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

— Paramahansa Yogananda

171. “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

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

— Paramahansa Yogananda

173. “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

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

— Paramahansa Yogananda

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

— Paramahansa Yogananda

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

— Paramahansa Yogananda

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

— Paramahansa Yogananda

178. “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

179. “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

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

— Paramahansa Yogananda

181. “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

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

— Paramahansa Yogananda

183. “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

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

— Paramahansa Yogananda

185. “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

186. “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

187. “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

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

— Paramahansa Yogananda

189. “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

190. “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

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

— Paramahansa Yogananda

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

— Paramahansa Yogananda

193. “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

194. “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

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

— Paramahansa Yogananda

196. “Thinkers do not accept the inevitable; they turn their efforts toward changing it.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

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

— Paramahansa Yogananda

198. “Seek truth in meditation, not in moldy books. Look in the sky to find the moon, not in the pond.” – Persian proverb.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

199. “Absolute, unquestioning faith in God is the greatest method of instantaneous healing. An unceasing effort to arouse that faith is man’s highest and most rewarding duty.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

200. “Always remember, nothing can touch you if you inwardly love God.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda