Paramhansa Yogananda

QUOTES from Paramahansa Yogananda, Author of Autobiography of a Yogi

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I am not your leader but your servant. I am as the dust at your feet. I see God represented in you, and I bow to you all.

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Each of you is composed of many tiny stars-- stars of atoms! ....released from the ego you would find yourself aware of the whole universe.

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Q- "Sir, shall I ever leave the spiritual path?" A- "How could you? Everyone in the world is on the spiritual path."

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A sin is anything that keeps man oblivious of God.

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A true friend feels your fears but fortifies your faith; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities

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Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.

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You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world.

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Pain is a prod to remembrance.

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The relativities of life and death belong to the cosmic dream. Behold your dreamless being!

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Infinity is our Home. We are just sojourning awhile in the caravanserai of the body.

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It's impossible to receive infinite wisdom in a finite cup of human intelligence. Consciousness must be expanded to hold the ocean of truth.

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The true definition of old age is that state wherein one has become bored with the world.

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Don't waste your time listening to the radio or reading useless novels. Be entertained by the divine messages coming from your own soul.

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It is difficult to be near a fragrant rose or ill odored skunk without being affected, so it is better to associate only with human roses.

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I can only arouse your appetite for divine fruit. Why don't you get busy and take a bite?

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Evil spreads with the wind. Truth is able to travel against the wind.

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God sleeps in the minerals, dreams in the flowers, awakens in the animals, and in man knows that He is awake.

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Even when I am gone, my help will always be given to devotees all over the world. Whenever a devotee thinks of me, he will know I am near.

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It is only by being aware of the relentless battle between the ego and the soul that we can win the victory of Self-Realization. -Daya Mata

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People make mistakes not because they are essentially evil, rather they don't discriminate; they move by the impulses of their ignorance.