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My keen love of travel was seldom hindered by Father. He permitted me, even as a mere boy, to visit many cities and pilgrimage spots.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
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#Father
#Love
#Me
#Travel
Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
#Creation
#Everything
#First
#Special
Ignoring all prejudices of caste, creed, class, color, sex, or race, a swami follows the precepts of human brotherhood. His goal is absolute unity with Spirit.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
#Caste
#Race
#Sex
#Spirit
#Unity
It is wisest to be impartial. If you have health, but are attached to it, you will always be afraid of losing it. And if you fear that loss, but become ill, you will suffer. Why not remain forever joyful in the Self?
- Paramahansa Yogananda
#Fear
#Health
#Losing
#Loss
#Self
#Why
As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don't let Him down, and so long as you make the effort.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
#Effort
#God
#Long
#Never
#Try
Introspection, or 'sitting in the silence,' is an unscientific way of trying to force apart the mind and senses, tied together by the life force. The contemplative mind, attempting its return to divinity, is constantly dragged back toward the senses by the life currents.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
#Life
#Mind
#Silence
#Together
#Way
When your mind is fully withdrawn in superconsciousness, it becomes centered in the bliss of the spine. You are then in your ideational, or causal, body. That is the level of the soul.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
#Bliss
#Body
#Level
#Mind
#Soul
All honest work is good work; it is capable of leading to self-development, provided the doer seeks to discover the inherent lessons and makes the most of the potentialities for such growth.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
#Capable
#Good Work
#Good
#Growth
#Work
Yoga is a method for restraining the natural turbulence of thoughts, which otherwise impartially prevent all men, of all lands, from glimpsing their true nature of Spirit. Yoga cannot know a barrier of East and West any more than does the healing and equitable light of the sun.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
#Light
#Men
#Nature
#Sun
#Thoughts
Hypnotism is trespass into the territory of another's consciousness. Its temporary phenomena have nothing in common with the miracles performed by men of divine realization.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
#Common
#Divine
#Men
#Miracles
#Nothing
Cosmic energy enters the body through the medulla and then passes to the cerebrum, in which it is stored or concentrated.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
#Body
#Cosmic
#Energy
#Through
#Which
The ideal of an all-sided education for youth had always been close to my heart. I saw clearly the arid results of ordinary instruction, aimed only at the development of body and intellect.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
#Always
#Body
#Development
#Education
#Heart
#Youth
The Creator, in taking infinite pains to shroud with mystery His presence in every atom of creation, could have had but one motive - a sensitive desire that men seek Him only through free will.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
#Creation
#Desire
#Free
#Men
#Mystery
This life is not man's own show; if he becomes personally and emotionally involved in the very complicated cosmic drama, he reaps inevitable suffering for having distorted the divine 'plot.'
- Paramahansa Yogananda
#Divine
#Drama
#Life
#Man
#Suffering
The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is individualized spirit.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
#Body
#Self
#Sense
#Soul
#Spirit
The man form is higher than the angel form; of all forms it is the highest. Man is the highest being in creation, because he aspires to freedom.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
#Angel
#Being
#Creation
#Freedom
#Man
Many great works of art, poetry, and music are inspired by astral memories. The desire to do noble, beautiful things here on Earth is also often a carryover of astral experiences between a person's earth lives.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
#Art
#Great
#Memories
#Music
#Poetry
The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
#Alone
#Happiness
#Heart
#Own
#Soul
#Try
Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to your own clearest understanding. you must long for freedom as the drowning man longs for air. Without sincere longing, you will never find God.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
#Best
#Freedom
#God
#Man
#Wise
Truth is exact correspondence with reality.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
#Correspondence
#Exact
#Reality
#Truth Is
#Truth
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
#Calm
#Find
#Serene
#Will
#Yourself
Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
#Eyes
#Heart
#Sad
#Smile
#Soul
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
#Friendship
#Heart
#Live
#Thinking
#True
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
- Paramahansa Yogananda
#Best
#Failure
#Seeds
#Success
#Time
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