“The rains of Life’s Blessings cannot gather on mountaintops of pride, but flow easily into valleys of humbleness.”
— Paramahansa Yogananda
“Extend the boundaries of the glowing kingdom of your love, gradually including your family, your neighbors, your community, your country, all countries – all living sentient creatures.”
“As God talked with Arjuna, so will He talk with you. As He lifted up the spirit and consciousness of Arjuna, so will He uplift you. As he granted Arjuna supreme spiritual vision, so will He confer enlightenment on you.”
“Love cannot be had for the asking; it comes only as a gift from the heart of another.”
“You have come to earth to entertain and to be entertained.”
“Those persons who have perceptive eyes enjoy beauty everywhere.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution.”
“So long as we believe in our heart of hearts that our capacity is limited and we grow anxious and unhappy, we are lacking in faith. One who truly trusts in God has no right to be anxious about anything.”
“The kingdom of God is just behind the darkness of closed eyes, and the first gate that opens to it is your peace.”
“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.”
“Divisions are imaginary lines drawn by small minds.”
“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.”
“The time will come when mankind will begin to get away from the consciousness of needing so many material things. More security and peace will be found in the simple life.”
“The so-called miraculous powers of a great master are a natural accompaniment to his exact understanding of subtle laws that operate in the inner cosmos of consciousness.”
“Keep puffing on the bubble until it breaks its confining walls and becomes the sea of joy.”
“Be inwardly ever newly joyous, like the ever-fresh laughing waters of a gurgling brook.”
“It is foolish to be afraid of death. Just think. No more repaired tires on the body vehicle, no more patchwork living.”
“Truths are more than imagination; they are real. Yet their origin is a thought in the mind of God.”
“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.”
“Faithfulness in the performance of small duties gives us strength to adhere to difficult determinations that life will someday force us to make.”
“No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit.”
“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.”
“You don’t know what is going to come to you in this world; you have to go on living and worrying. Those who die are pitying us; they are blessing us. Why should you grieve for them?”
“An artist doesn’t really create anything – he just rearranges what is already there.”
“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.”
“Softer than the flower, where kindness is concerned; stronger than the thunder, where principles are at stake.”
“I have left a few paltry rupees, a few petty pleasures, for a cosmic empire of endless bliss. How then have I denied myself anything? I know the joy of sharing the treasure. Is that a sacrifice? The shortsighted worldly folk are verily the real renunciates! They relinquish an unparalleled divine possession for a poor handful of earthly toys!”
“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.”
“The body is a treacherous friend. Give it its due; no more. Pain and pleasure are transitory; endure all dualities with calmness, trying at the same time to remove yourself beyond their power. Imagination is the door through which disease as well as healing enters. Disbelieve in the reality of sickness even when you are ill; an unrecognized visitor will flee!”
“Man should strive to see the God in woman, and to help her realize her spiritual nature. He should make her feel that she is with him not merely to satisfy his sensual appetites, but as a companion whom he respects and regards as an expression of the Divine. And woman should look upon man in the same way.”
“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.”
“The body is literally manufactured and sustained by mind.”
“Great healers, people of divine realization, do not cure by chance but by exact knowledge.”
“The more deeply we perceive, the more striking becomes the evidence that a uniform plan links every form in manifold nature.”
“Keen intelligence is two-edged,” Master once remarked in reference to Kumar’s brilliant mind. “It may be used constructively or destructively, like a knife, either to cut the boil of ignorance, or to decapitate oneself. Intelligence is rightly guided only after the mind has acknowledged the inescapability of spiritual law.”
“Practice loving those who do not love you. Feel for those who do not feel for you. Be generous to those who are generous only to themselves. If you heap hatred on your enemy, neither he nor you are able to perceive the inherent beauty of your soul.”
“It is I who have watched over thee, life after life, in the tenderness of many mothers! See in My gaze the two black eyes, the lost beautiful eyes, thou seekest!”
“Good manners without sincerity are like a beautiful dead lady,” he remarked on suitable occasion. “Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon’s knife, effective but unpleasant. Candor with courtesy is helpful and admirable.”
“Feel body as luxury – as a bird feels when shooting through the air, and as a child does always – is health.”
“You must methodize your life. God created routine. The sun shines until dusk and the stars shine until dawn.”
“Moral: Look fear in the face and it will cease to trouble you.”
“All creative scientists know that the true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions they uncover the laws of truth.”
“You possess the power of thought and the power of will. Utilize to the uttermost these divine gifts!”
“Subtle astral colors... are hidden in everything around you. Could you but see, you would be amazed at their beauty.”
“We should bathe our spirits in the deep, pure feeling that stirs within us when we gaze on the glories of His creation. This is the way to know God as beauty.”
“The Spirit could not create matter as anything different from Itself, for it had only Itself as the tissue or material with which to build the cosmos.”
“To face death itself should not daunt you. Fear of death is ridiculous, because as long as you are not dead you are alive, and when you are dead there is noting more to worry about!”
“Little stones that are pelted into the lake of consciousness should not throw the whole lake into commotion.”
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