Quotes by 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.

When you learn to live for others they will live for you.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.

The happiness of ones own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to ones own happiness, the happiness of others.

Man is important in one sense only. He was made in the image of God: That is his importance. He is not important for his body, ego, or personality. His constant affirmation of ego-consciousness is the source of all his problems.

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?

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.

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.

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 persons earth lives.

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.

“As Cosmic Vibration, all things are one; but when Cosmic Vibration becomes frozen into matter, it becomes many--including mans body, which is a part of this variously divided matter.* (*footnote: Recent advances in what theoretical physicists call superstring theory are leading science toward an understanding of the vibratory nature of creation. Brian Greene, Ph.D., professor of physics at Cornell and Columbia Universities, writes in The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (New York: Vintage Books, 2000): During the last thirty years of his life, Albert Einstein sought relentlessly for a so-called unified field theory--a theory capable of describing natures forces within a single, all-encompassing, coherent framework...Now, at the dawn of the new millennium, proponents of string theory claim that the threads of this elusive unified tapestry finally have been revealed... The theory suggests that the microscopic landscape is suffused with tiny strings whose vibrational patterns orchestrate the evolution of the universe, Professor Greene writes, and tells us that the length of a typical string loop is...about a hundred billion billion (1020) times smaller than an atomic nucleus.)”