Posts tagged inspiration

Once when I was meditating I heard His voice, whispering: “Thou dost say I am away, but thou didst not come in. That is why thou dost say I am away. I am always in. Come in and thou wilt see Me. I am always here, ready to greet thee.”

- Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda “Man’s Eternal Quest”

If I were to give you the gift that I would like best of all to offer you, it would be the right attitude toward God and Guru; toward life; toward your work; toward the others of your group. But the best gifts cannot be purchased and given. The gifts and graces of the soul must be acquired by patient, daily practice. All will surely be yours in time, for if you do not obtain them in the position to which God has called you, where, in all the world, are they to be found?

- Sri Gyanamata “God Alone: The Life and Letters of a Saint”

When you are told you are good, you should not relax but should try to become even better. Your continuous improvement gives happiness to you, to those around you, and to God.

- Sri Sri Paramahansa Yoga­nanda “Sayings of Paramahansa Yogananda”

Avoid a negative approach to life. Why gaze down the sewers when there is loveliness all around us? One may find some fault in even the greatest masterpieces of art, music, and literature. But isn’t it better to enjoy their charm and glory? Life has a bright side and a dark side, for the world of relativity is composed of light and shadows. If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil, you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything, that you absorb the quality of beauty.

- Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda “Sayings of Paramahansa Yogananda”

See nothing, look at nothing but your goal, ever shining before you. The things that happen to us do not matter; what we become through them does. Each day, accept everything as coming to you from God. At night, give everything back into His hands.

- Sri Gyanamata “God Alone: The Life and Letters of a Saint”

You cannot be free unless you have burned the seeds of past actions in the fire of wisdom and meditation. -

Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda “Yogoda Satsanga Magazine”

The soul is bound to the body by a chain of desires, temptations, troubles, and ­worries, and it is trying to free itself. If you keep tugging at that chain which is holding you to mortal consciousness, some day an invisible Divine Hand will intervene and snap it apart, and you will be free.

- Sri Sri Paramahansa Yoga­nanda “Man’s Eternal Quest”

The Infinite Source is an infinite dynamo, continually pouring strength, ­happiness, and power into the soul. That is why it is so important to rely as much as you can upon the Infinite Source. -

Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda Yogoda Satsanga Lessons

Absolute, unquestioning faith in God is the greatest method of instantaneous ­healing. An unceasing effort to arouse that faith is man’s highest and most rewarding duty.

- Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda

“Scientific Healing Affirmations”

As you look upon creation, which appears so solid and real, remember always to think of it as ideas in the mind of God, frozen into physical forms. -

Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda Yogoda Satsanga Lessons