552 Quotes by Paramahansa Yogananda

Spirit is the vast stillness which is behind all created things.

Ever-new Joy is God. He is inexhaustible; as you continue your meditations during the years, He will beguile you with an infinite ingenuity. Devotees like yourself who have found the way to God never dream of exchanging Him for any other happiness; He is seductive beyond thought of competition.

Never neglect what you can do for yourself in the form of another.

Do your best and then relax.

The body is only a garment. How many times you have changed your clothing in this life, yet because of this you would not say that you have changed. Similarly, when you give up this bodily dress at death you do not change. You are just the same, an immortal soul, a child of God.

Consider whether fulfillment of the goal you have chosen will constitute success. What is success? If you possess health and wealth, but have trouble with everybody (including yourself), yours is not a successful life. Existence becomes futile if you cannot find happiness. When wealth is lost, you have lost a little; when health is lost, you have lost something of more consequence; but when peace of mind is lost, you have lost the highest treasure.

Truths are more than imagination; they are real. Yet their origin is a thought in the mind of God.

Great healers, people of divine realization, do not cure by chance but by exact knowledge.

Whatever you want others to be, first be that yourself. Then, you will find others responding in like manner to you.