Top 48 Paramahansa Yogananda Best Quotes
#1. If you possess happiness you possess everything: to be happy is to be in tune with God.
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#3. An artist doesn't really create anything - he just rearranges what is already there.
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#4. Through every trial we grow. All suffering we experience has a meaning. Though it seems very cruel, it is like the fire that smelts the iron ore: the steel that emerges from that furnace is beautifully strong, useful for many purposes.
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#5. Your trials did not come to punish you, but to awaken you - to make you realise that you are a part of Spirit and that just behind the sparks of your life is the Flame of Infinity.
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#6. Whatever I do, I do with the greatest love that I have in me. Try this, and you will see that you do not become fatigued at all. Love is one of the greatest stimulants to the will. Under the influence of love the will can do almost anything.
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#7. Do not think of yourself as the body, but as the joyous consciousness and immortal life behind it.
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#8. When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything.
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#10. Untrained warriors are soon killed on the battlefield; so also persons untrained in the art of preserving their inner peace are quickly riddled by the bullets of worry and restlessness in active life.
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#11. He who has realized oneness with God possesses all knowledge contained in Him. Knowing the Lord as Beginning and End of all beings and worlds, a true Brahmin has knowledge of the hereafter and of the workings of nature on this plane of existence.
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#12. Self-realization means to know truth through yourself, and not through others. By seeking God first, through Self-realization, all things-strength, power, prosperity, wisdom, health, and immortality-will be added unto you.
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#13. To me there is no difference between one person and another; I behold all as soul-reflection s of the one God. I can't think of anyone as a stranger, for I know that we are all part of the One Spirit.
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#14. I relax and cast aside all mental burdens, allowing God to express through me His perfect love, peace, and wisdom.
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#15. Self-realization is, in fact, the only religion. For it is the true purpose of religion, no matter how people define their beliefs.
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#17. The Sama Veda of India contains the world's earliest writings on musical science. The
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#19. Through delusion you are perceiving yourself as a bundle of flesh and bones, which at best is a nest of troubles.
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#20. Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to your own clearest understanding. you must long for freedom as the drowning man longs for air. Without sincere longing, you will never find God.
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#21. Opportunities in life come by creation, not by chance. You yourself, either now or in the past (including the past of former lives), have created all opportunities that arise in your path. Since you have earned them, use them to the best advantage.
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#23. Forget you were born a Hindu, and don't be an American. Take the best of them both,
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#24. The best methods are those which help the life energy to
resume its inner work of healing
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#25. The soul must stretch over the cosmogonic abysses, while the body performs its daily duties.
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#26. Realize that enough hidden strength lies within you to overcome all obstacles and temptations. Bring forth that indomitable power and energy.
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#28. The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is individualized spirit.
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#29. When you meditate the glory of the Divine shines forth.
You realize then that all along there was something tremendous within you and you did not know it.
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#31. Sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one stanza at a time is slowly assimilated. Continual intellectual study results in vanity and the false satisfaction of an undigested knowledge." Sri
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#32. Yoga is, as I can readily believe, the perfect and appropriate method of fusing body and mind together so that they form a unity which is scarcely to be questioned. This unity creates a psychological disposition which makes possible intuitions that transcend consciousness.
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#35. If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your destiny.
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#36. Through the orifice of silence, the whole geyser of Bliss, perpetually shoots up and flows over the soul.
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#37. Hypnotism is trespass into the territory of another's consciousness. Its temporary phenomena have nothing in common with the miracles performed by men of divine realization.
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#38. The true basis of religion is not belief, but intuitive experience. Intuition is the soul's power of knowing God. To know what religion is really all about, one must know God.
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#39. He who is persistent will realize God. So try your best to make meditation a regular experience in your life.
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#40. Analyze yourself. All emotions are reflected in the body and mind. Envy and fear cause the face to pale, love makes it glow.
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#41. A swami may conceivably follow only the path of dry reasoning, of cold renunciation; but a yogi engages himself in a definite, step-by-step procedure by which the body and mind are disciplined, and the soul liberated.
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#42. It doesn't matter if a cave has been in darkness for 10,000 years or half an hour, once you light a match it is illuminated.
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#43. Never do anything that taints your mind. Wrong actions cause negative or evil mental vibrations that are reflected in your whole appearance and personality. Engage in those actions and thoughts that nurture the good qualities you want to have.
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#44. One may have many teachers, but only one guru, who remains as one's guru even in many different lives, until the disciple reaches the final goal of emancipation in God. You must remember this, once that relationship is formed.
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#46. With the opening of the New Year, all the closed portals of limitations will be thrown open and I shall move through them to vaster fields, where my worthwhile dreams of life will be fulfilled.
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#47. The existence of such rays coming from man and all living things has been suspected by scientists for many years. Today is the first experimental proof of their existence. The discovery shows that every atom and every molecule in nature is a continuous radio broadcasting station ...
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#48. Do your best and then relax. Let things go on in a natural way, rather than force them.
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