552 Quotes by Paramahansa Yogananda

Before embarking on important undertakings sit quietly calm your senses and thoughts and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the great creative power of Spirit.

Humans become angels on earth, not in heaven.

God is simple, everything else is complex

Find god - he isn't hiding from you, you're hiding from him.

Death is only an experience through which you are meant to learn a great lesson: you cannot die.

Gandhi has sound economic and cultural reasons for encouraging the revival of cottage industries, but he does not counsel a fanatical repudiation of all modern progress. Machinery, trains, automobiles, the telegraph have played important parts in his own colossal life! Fifty years of public service, in prison and out, wrestling daily with practical details and harsh realities in the political world, have only increased his balance, open-mindedness, sanity, and humorous appreciation of the quaint human spectacle.

Births and deaths are inevitable for man only during the state of ignorance in which he thinks he is the body and cannot exist without it. Only the man who will not seek the awakening of wisdom must suffer the nightmares and delusive dreams of births and deaths and the fanciful miseries and limitations attending them. (gt)

Stillness is the altar of spirit.

The seeker of God is the real lover of vidya, unchangeable truth; all else is avidya, relative knowledge.