Paramahansa Yogananda

The time will come when mankind will begin to get away from the consciousness of needing so many material things. More security and peace will be found in the simple life.

Paramahansa Yogananda

The trivial preoccupations of daily life are not enough for man; wisdom too is a native hunger.

Paramahansa Yogananda

The true basis of religion is not belief, but intuitive experience. Intuition is the soul’s power of knowing God. To know what religion is really all about, one must know God.

Paramahansa Yogananda

There are always two forces warring against each other within us.

Paramahansa Yogananda

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

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

Those persons who have perceptive eyes enjoy beauty everywhere.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Those who are socially inclined will find a new power to help humanity through the lessons of books written by noble and gifted people.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Thought is a force, even as electricity or gravitation. The human mind is a spark of the almighty consciousness of God. I could show you that whatever your powerful mind believes very intensely would instantly come to pass.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Through delusion you are perceiving yourself as a bundle of flesh and bones, which at best is a nest of troubles.

Paramahansa Yogananda