552 Quotes by Paramahansa Yogananda

The mother’s love is not given to us to spoil us with indulgence, but to soften our hearts, that we may in turn soften others with kindness.

Practice loving those who do not love you. Feel for those who do not feel for you. Be generous to those who are generous only to themselves. If you heap hatred on your enemy, neither he nor you are able to perceive the inherent beauty of your soul.

Calmness is the living breath of God’s immortality in you.

It is I who have watched over thee, life after life, in the tenderness of many mothers! See in My gaze the two black eyes, the lost beautiful eyes, thou seekest!

Continual intellectual study results in vanity and the false satisfaction of an undigested knowledge.

All creative scientists know that the true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions they uncover the laws of truth.

The body is literally manufactured and sustained by mind.

With the realization of God comes all power. If the little wave knew that behind it is the great ocean, it could say, “I am the ocean.” You should realize that just behind your consciousness is the Ocean of God.

Nothing may truly be said to be a “miracle” except in the profound sense that everything is a miracle. That each of us is encased in an intricately organized body, and is set upon an earth whirling through space among the stars – is anything more commonplace? or more miraculous? Great.