Sri Yukteswar Quotes

#1. Warriors like Alexander the Great seek sovereignty over the soil; masters like Sri Yukteswar win a farther dominion - in men's souls. It

Paramahansa Yogananda

#2. Sri Yukteswar showed no special consideration to those who happened to be powerful or accomplished; neither did he slight others for their poverty or illiteracy. He would listen respectfully to words of truth from a child, and openly ignore a conceited pundit.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#3. Medicines have limitations; the divine creative life force has none. - Swami Sri Yukteswar

Kimberly Snyder

#4. Babaji's spiritual state is beyond human comprehension. The dwarfed vision of men cannot pierce to his transcendental star. One attempts in vain even to picture the avatar's attainment. It is inconceivable.

Sri Yukteswar Giri

#5. I don't envy her much, in spite of her money, for after all rich people have about as many worries as poor ones, I think

Louisa May Alcott

#6. Many teachers will tell you to believe; then they put out your eyes of reason and instruct you to follow only their logic. But I want you to keep your eyes of reason open; in addition, I will open in you another eye, the eye of wisdom.

Sri Yukteswar Giri

#7. I can imagine many things, but few clearly.

Mason Cooley

#8. We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.

Pope Benedict XVI

#9. If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.

Adyashanti

#10. People need to hear what I have to say. There's no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn't matter what I live.

Newt Gingrich

#11. It feels amazing to just be here and be able to share my jokes with the world. It's not so much about being a girl, it's about being a funny comic.

Iliza Shlesinger

#12. The Four Ideas: the Word, Time, Space, and the Atom. The ensuing effect is the idea of particles - the innumerable atoms, pair a or anu. These four - the Word, Time, Space, and the Atom - are therefore one and the same, and substantially nothing but mere ideas.

Sri Yukteswar Giri

#13. Tender inner weaknesses, revolting at mild touches of censure, are like diseased parts of the body, recoiling before even delicate handling.

Sri Yukteswar Giri

#14. Remember that finding God will mean the funeral of all sorrows.

Sri Yukteswar Giri

#15. In shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a ruffle.

Sri Yukteswar Giri

#16. Beings with un-redeemed earthly karma are not permitted after astral death to go to the high causal sphere of cosmic ideas , but must shuttle to and fro from the physical and astral worlds.

Sri Yukteswar Giri

#17. Keen intelligence is two-edged, It may be used constructively or destructively like a knife, either to cut the boil of ignorance, or to decapitate one's self. Intelligence is rightly guided only after the mind has acknowledged the inescapability of spiritual law.

Sri Yukteswar Giri

#18. Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

Peter Ustinov

#19. The vanished lives of all are filled with many shames. Therefore do not judge.

Sri Yukteswar Giri

#20. Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

Jack Canfield

#21. Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the Divine. Everything in the future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now.

Sri Yukteswar Giri