Paramahansa Yogananda

Seclusion is the price of greatness.

Love is the song of the soul singing to God. It is the balanced rhythmic dance of planets - sun and moon lit

A smooth life is not a victorious life.

There is in India a story of a dying youth who, hearing the sobs of grief around him, cried: Insult me not with your cries of sympathy. When I soar to the land of eternal light and love; it is I who should feel for you. For me, disease, shattering of bones, sorrow, excruciating heartaches no more. I dream joy, I glide in joy, I breathe in joy evermore.

Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He who has fled his Self in earthly joys will not recapture It amidst the gossamer charms of an astral world. There he merely accumulates finer perceptions and more sensitive responses to the beautiful and the good, which are one. It is on the anvil of this gross earth that struggling man must hammer out the imperishable gold of spiritual identity.

Be inwardly ever newly joyous, like the ever-fresh laughing waters of a gurgling brook.

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.

Thought is the primary energy and vibration that emanated from God and is thus the creator of life, electrons, atoms, and all forms of energy.

Wise guidance never violates people's Free Will. A superior who demands obedience of his subordinates should show respect for their capacity to understand, and also for their Innate Right to their own Free Will.

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.

Build your inner environment. Practice Silence! I remember the wonderful discipline of the Great Ones. When we used to talk and chatter, they would say: "Go back into your inner castle." It was very hard to comprehend then, but now I understand the way of peace

Love is the heartbeat of all life.

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

I come not to entertain you with worldly festivities but to arouse your sleeping memory of immortality.

The reality of my life cannot die for I am indestructible consciousness.

Environment is of supreme importance. It is greater than will power.

Great healers, people of divine realization, do not cure by chance but by exact knowledge.

Humbly serving all with their beauty, flowers say more to us about God than anything else. Each one brings a message that the Heavenly Father is right here.

Remember this: When I am gone, only love can take my place. Be absorbed night and day in the love of God, and give that love to all.

Come into the silence of solitude, and the vibration there will talk to you through the voice of God.

Know that this universe is nothing but a dream bluff of nature to test your consciousness of immortality.