Each minute of life should be a divine quest.
Interpretation
Life should be approached with purpose and intention, viewing each moment as a sacred opportunity.
The quote by Paramahansa Yogananda emphasizes the importance of living each moment with purpose, treating it as a quest for higher understanding and fulfillment. It encourages individuals to engage deeply with life, recognizing the divine potential in everyday experiences and interactions.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth and purpose.
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.
God's blessings are dispensed according to the riches of his grace, not according to the depth of our faith.
Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without a capacity of relieving only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance.
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.
Those who have won the ovarian lottery by being born in an advanced society to loving parents have a special obligation to help restore the American Dream.
To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
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