Top 45 Goswami Kriyananda Quotes
#2. The secret of success is doing things not merely because they are popular, but because you deeply believe in them.
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#3. Trust life, even if you cannot trust people. For human nature is unreliable, but life itself is ruled by immutable law. Right action leads always, in the end, to victory.
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#5. Happiness is self-generated. It depends on one's attitude of mind. The basis of happiness, is the simple fact that the deepest reality of our own nature is ever-existing, ever-conscious, ever-new joy.
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#6. The essence of Ananda is both personal and sociological. Personally for people who seek truth or identities of God, it helps to be with other people who share those ideals. Environment is stronger than willpower, and when you are with people who have high ideals, it helps you to grow in your ideals.
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#8. If you want to do one good thing in the world, the best thing you can do is give other people joy.
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#9. Joy is not dependent upon outward circumstances. Joy is something that we can have under all circumstances when we are sad or happy. Outward circumstances are always neutral. They seem to be happy or sad according to the happy or sad attitudes of the mind.
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#12. If you begin to identify yourself with that inner awareness, and then you realize you're not really doing anything. As long as there's the thought, "I'm trying to wake up," that thought of "I" is still there.
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#13. As you begin this day, tell yourself, Today I am incarnated anew! I am released from the hypnosis of my old habits and mistakes! Everything that I have long dreamed of doing I will accomplish in this, my new life.
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#14. Your enemy is still yourself. You don't have enemies. They may be self-styled. I have plenty of self-styled enemies. I don't wish them harm.
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#15. Attachment is the state of ignorance or forgetfulness, and thus clinging to a memory of enjoyment
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#16. I was always seeking truth from childhood. And I identified truth with many things, with science, with politics, with art, and I kept coming back to the thought that without God I can't get to what I'm looking for.
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#17. Live more quietly. Live more seeking God's presence in your own heart.
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#18. It's not insincere to say you're happy if your determined to make it true and live in that consciousness.
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#20. Happiness is NOW! It isn't tomorrow. It isn't yesterday. Happiness is like a morning glory: Yesterday's won't bloom again; tomorrow's hasn't opened yet. Only today's flower can be enjoyed today. Be happy this very moment, and you'll learn how to be happy always.
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#21. Happiness is a question of attitude, not a question of what's happening out there.
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#22. The greatest thing that will please God is that you maintain an attitude of unshakable joy.
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#23. Become more and more centered in the Self. To live more and more in the thought that God is here in your consciousness.
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#25. If it (the good circumstances) changes will you be able to keep onto your happiness just as much? Because if not then your happiness is really built on sand.
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#27. Don't live to be unhappy, live to be happy. If you live to be happy you'll find the things that make you happy. And as you do that you find that sharing with others makes you much happier than taking from them.
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#28. Take whatever cause for outward happiness you might have and take it within yourself, so that, if the sun should go out, you will not be any less happy; if the birds stop singing you will not be any less happy.
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#30. The "kingdom of heaven" to which he referred was the state of God-consciousness, not the beautiful astral heavens that most people visualize, where virtuous souls go after death.
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#31. The secret of friendship is expressing kindness with your eyes and through the tone of your voice, not only with words.
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#32. Whatever you experience outwardly, take it within yourself and say 'I'm happy because I'm happy. I'm happy because God is in my heart.'
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#33. Happiness is like a plant: It must be watered daily with giving thoughts and actions.
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#34. Understand that there is no relationship between your inner happiness and your inner joy and the outer things that you experience and behold in the world, that it all begins with you, the world is a mirror to your own Self, when you can look at things and feel joy not in the things but in yourself.
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#35. Be thou a true yogi. A yogi who understands that everything he's looking for is really inside himself. Learn to live more in the Self.
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#36. Master said if you want to be happy no one in the world can take happiness from you; if you want to be unhappy, no one in the world can make you happy. So choose to be happy.
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#37. Even-minded and cheerful. When things go bad, you'll find that the same kind of attitude comes to you naturally.
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#38. If anything or anyone distresses you, think how you'll feel a week - a month - a year later. If you can imagine yourself being happy and peaceful then, why waste all that time? Be happy and peaceful now.
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#39. Realize that to have friends one must first be a friend. Make friendship a priority in your life.
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#40. The real sign of His blessings is if you can have more and more happiness inside. Learn always to be happy; to be happy with the happiness of God. Even- minded and cheerful. This is the fastest route to divine bliss.
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#41. Learn to live more in the Self. Come down a little bit to eat and talk as necessary.
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#42. My master's visualizations were so powerful their condensation into matter was mere signature. Donald Walters, formerly Kriyananda, author of The Path about his guru Yogananda.
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#44. A deliberate attitude that you have to hold in your mind as one of the basic rules of yoga is to remain even-minded and cheerful..
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#45. You can accept it that it may be true what somebody else says, but until you have experienced it, it is not dynamic to your own awareness.
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