Paramahansa Yogananda

Calmness is the living breath of God's immortality in you.

As I radiate love and goodwill to others, I will open the channel for God's love to come to me.

The rains of Life's Blessings cannot gather on mountaintops of pride, but flow easily into valleys of humbleness.

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?

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

Spirit is the vast stillness which is behind all created things.

When you came into this world you cried, whereas everyone else rejoiced. During your lifetime, work and serve in such a way that when it is time for you to leave this world, you will smile at parting while the world cries for you. Hold this thought and you will always remember to consider others above yourself.

The sun shines equally on diamond and charcoal, but the former has developed qualities that enable it to reflect the sunlight brilliantly, while the latter is unable to reflect the sunlight. Emulate the diamond in your dealings with people. Brightly reflect the light of God's love.

If God calls me tomorrow I will go without a moment's turning back.

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.

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.

The reflection, the verisimilitude, of life that shines in the fleshly cells from the soul source is the only cause of man's attachment to his body; obviously he would not pay solicitous homage to a clod of clay. A human being falsely identifies himself with his physical form because the life currents from the soul are breath-conveyed into the flesh with such intense power that man mistakes the effect for a cause, and idolatrously imagines the body to have life of its own.

When you yearn for God with intensity, He will come to you.

From joy I came, for joy I live, in sacred joy I melt.

Love cannot be had for the asking; it comes only as a gift from the heart of another

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

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.

A saint is a sinner who never gave up.

May Thy Love shine forever on the sanctuary of my devotion. And may I be able to awaken Thy love in all hearts.

Success should be measured by the yardstick of happiness; by your ability to remain in peaceful harmony with cosmic laws.

Environment is stronger than will.