Paramahansa Yogananda

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.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Your part is to awaken your desire to accomplish your worthy objectives. Then whip your will into action until it follows the way of wisdom that is shown to you.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Your trials did not come to punish you, but to awaken you – to make you realise that you are a part of Spirit and that just behind the sparks of your life is the flame of infinity.

Paramahansa Yogananda

A divine decree, resting beyond the gaze of human beings, works mysteriously to bring all things into outer manifestation at the proper time.

Paramahansa Yogananda

A harmonized mind produces harmony in this world of seeming discord.

Paramahansa Yogananda

A man will be beloved if, possessed with great power, he still does not make himself feared.

Paramahansa Yogananda

A swami may conceivably follow only the path of dry reasoning, of cold renunciation; but a yogi engages himself in a definite, step-by-step procedure by which the body and mind are disciplined, and the soul liberated.

Paramahansa Yogananda

A true yogi may remain dutifully in the world; there, he is like butter on water and not like the easily-diluted milk of unchurned and undisciplined humanity.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Alike in soul though diverse in outer experience, neither West nor East will flourish if some form of disciplinary yoga be not practiced.

Paramahansa Yogananda

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

Paramahansa Yogananda