552 Quotes by Paramahansa Yogananda

The soul's first adventure is the fight between two ideas: the wish to return to earth in a human form, and the desire to feel the freedom of having no form.

Be careful what you choose to do consciously, for unless your will is very strong, that is what you may have to do repeatedly and compulsively through the habit-influencing power of the subconscious mind.

I am no longer the wave of consciousness thinking itself separated from the sea of cosmic consciousness. I am the ocean of Spirit that has become the wave of human life.

The Spirit of God, I realized, is exhaustless Bliss; His body is countless tissues of light.

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.

World' is a large term, but man must enlarge his allegiance, considering himself in the light of a world citizen... A person who truly feels: 'The world is my homeland; it is my America, my India, my Philippines, my England, my Africa,' will never lack scope for a useful and happy life. His natural local pride will know limitless expansion; he will be in touch with creative universal currents.

Mind is the creator of everything. You should therefore guide it to create only good. If you cling to a certain thought with dynamic will power, it finally assumes a tangible outward form. When you are able to employ your will always for constructive purposes, you become the controller of your destiny.

Faithfulness in the performance of small duties gives us strength to adhere to difficult determinations that life will someday force us to make.

Nothing may truly be said to be a miracle except in the profound sense that everything is a miracle.