Quotes from Paramahansa Yogananda

Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations.

Bring into play the almighty power within you, so that on the stage of life you can fulfill your high destined role.

The reality of my life cannot die for I am indestructible consciousness.

Discerning placement of a comma does not atone for a spiritual coma.

Seek spiritual riches within. What you are is much greater than anyone or anything else you have ever yearned for.

He who is persistent will realize God. So try your best to make meditation a regular experience in your life.

Each minute of life should be a divine quest.

Do not think of yourself as the body, but as the joyous consciousness and immortal life behind it.

Play your part in life, but never forget it is only a role.

Your success in life does not altogether depend on ability and training; it also depends on your determination to grasp opportunities that are presented to you.

As you find your soul-reservoir of peace, less and less controversy will be able to afflict your life.

He who finds joy within himself discovers that his body is charged with electric current, life energy, not from food but from God.

God made us angels of energy, encased in solids - currents of life dazzling through a material bulb of flesh.

With the opening of the New Year, all the closed portals of limitations will be thrown open and I shall move through them to vaster fields, where my worthwhile dreams of life will be fulfilled.

Whoever comes to me finds me a mirror to whatever is in his heart. Thus, I try to help him to see qualities in himself that he needs to overcome.

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.

Realize that enough hidden strength lies within you to overcome all obstacles and temptations. Bring forth that indomitable power and energy.

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

Success is hastened or delayed by one's habits. It is not your passing inspirations or brilliant ideas so much as your everyday mental habits that control your life.

Success is hastened or delayed by one's habits.

In your heart must well that sympathy which soothes away all pains from the hearts of others.

When you exercise your will power you release the power of life energy - not when you merely wish passively to be able to obtain an objective.

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?

To allot God a secondary place in life was, to me, inconceivable. Though He is the sole Owner of the cosmos, silently showering us with gifts from life to life, one thing yet remains which He does not own, and which each human heart is empowered to withhold or bestow - man's love.