Everything is Spirit - in essence, though hidden in manifestation. If you had the perception, you would see God in everything.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that the essence of all things is spirit, and if one perceives deeply, they can see the divine presence in everything.
Paramahansa Yogananda's quote emphasizes the idea that beneath the surface of the physical world lies a spiritual essence that connects all beings. It encourages us to look beyond appearances and recognize the omnipresence of divinity, suggesting that a deeper level of perception is required to see the underlying truth of existence.
In practice
In a spiritual lecture discussing the nature of reality.
Man is important in one sense only. He was made in the image of God: That is his importance. He is not important for his body, ego, or personality. His constant affirmation of ego-consciousness is the source of all his problems.
When, by meditation, we withdraw restless thoughts from the lake of the mind, we behold our soul, a perfect reflection of Spirit.
It is wisest to be impartial. If you have health, but are attached to it, you will always be afraid of losing it. And if you fear that loss, but become ill, you will suffer. Why not remain forever joyful in the Self?
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.
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.
Millions of people never analyze themselves. Mentally they are mechanical products of the factory of their environment, preoccupied with breakfast, lunch, and dinner, working and sleeping, and going here and there to be entertained. They don't know what or why they are seeking, nor why they never realize complete happiness and lasting satisfaction. By evading self-analysis, people go on being robots, conditioned by their environment. True self-analysis is the greatest art of progress.
Does a dragon still sing from within a withered tree?
But if it ever occurs to people to value the honor of the mind equally with the honor of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort β and very different from the kind that is being made at the moment.
I lay puzzle as I backtrack to earlier times, Nothing's equivalent to the New York state of mind
The world remains ever the same.
But you are involved in the world, and your actions have consequences for other people, and if you don't recognize that, then that's the supreme kind of cruelty. Everyone shares someone else's fate to some extent.
The fundamental loss of a desire for God is the heart of original sin.
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