Paramahansa Yogananda

Forget your dream-born mortal weakness. Wake up and know that you and God are one.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits. Obeying the ego leads to bondage; obeying the soul brings liberation.

Paramahansa Yogananda

God is simple. Everything else is complex. Do not seek absolute values in the relative world of nature.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Great healers, people of divine realization, do not cure by chance but by exact knowledge.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Have only love in your heart for others. The more you see the good in them, the more you will establish good in yourself.

Paramahansa Yogananda

He alone who has striven and won can enrich the world by bestowing the fruits of his victorious experience.

Paramahansa Yogananda

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

Paramahansa Yogananda

I am a spark from the Infinite. I am not flesh and bones. I am light.

Paramahansa Yogananda

I come not to entertain you with worldly festivities but to arouse your sleeping memory of immortality.

Paramahansa Yogananda

I could not kill a cobra without violating two of my vows – fearlessness, and non-killing. I would rather try inwardly to calm the snake by vibrations of love. I cannot possibly lower my standards to suit my circumstances.

Paramahansa Yogananda