Mistakes – call them unexpected learning experiences. - Richard Bach.

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it. - Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Affirm:] “O Father, Thou art sacred perennial joy, Thou art the joy I seek, Thou art the joy of the soul. Teach me to worship Thee through the joy born of meditation.” - Paramahansa Yogananda.

We can convert ourselves, our matter-of-fact workaday life, to vibrate with the song of the Infinite. Spiritualize yourself, so the divine melody will flow through your life no matter what your outer activities. - Paramahansa Yogananda.

Enjoy divine thoughts with your friends. Use your time for God. If you find souls who will share that goal, then you can drink God together from the chalice of divine friendship. The highest duty God has given you is to develop His consciousness in yourself and to help true friends to do the same. So long as life sweetly sings with God, it will bring happiness to you and to others. - Paramahansa Yogananda.

Why shouldn’t you strengthen your own vibrations through fellowship with people seeking Self-realization, and by group meditation with them? This practice will fortify your own spiritual convictions; you will find that many seemingly insuperable barriers in your life will crumble and dissolve in the waters of meditation….Divine bliss will radiate from you, helping all persons you meet. - Paramahansa Yogananda.

The proximity of others’ spiritual vibrations has the power of raising your own. Meditating with other devotees thus helps you to quicken your evolution. They inspire you on your climb up the ladder of Self-realization; and you, by your example, can also be helpful to them. - Paramahansa Yogananda.

Only meditation yields this ever-increasing, ever-new, responding joy. Sooner or later you will realize that you want a thing only until you get it; then you will start looking for something else. But in discovering soul joy, you will find that “something else”….You will never tire of this ever new joy of your soul, which is of God. - Paramahansa Yogananda.

Real unending joy lies in attuning the consciousness to its true, ever calm soul nature by meditation… - Paramahansa Yogananda.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You will find, by continued practice of meditation, that you will gain perceptions of an ever-new, ever-increasing joy, a joy that is not just an abstract mental state of short-lived mortal pleasure, but the God-joy of meditation that will receive and respond to your prayers. - Paramahansa Yogananda.

For example, yoga enables one to solve all problems by soul guidance, the wisdom born of Self-realization. So long as problems occupy the mind, there is little opportunity for mental and spiritual freedom, for these cannot coexist with mental turmoil. The mind should be cleared of confusing moods, worries, and fears so that in the sky of mental calmness the liberated bird of paradise, the soul, can soar and spread its wings over one’s whole existence. By gradually easing the perplexities and difficulties that burden one’s life from within and without, yoga paves the way to freedom. - Paramahansa Yogananda.

Yoga is primarily a science of meditation: concentration on God and absorption of one’s consciousness in Him. But as a natural prerequisite to the ability to meditate uninterruptedly on God, yoga also inculcates discipline and proper direction to spiritualize every aspect of human nature and daily life. - Paramahansa Yogananda.

Uniting the soul with Spirit is Yoga - reunion with that great Happiness everyone is seeking... Isn’t this a wonderful definition? In the ever new Bliss of Spirit you are convinced that the joy you feel is greater than any other happiness, and nothing can get you down. - Paramahansa Yogananda.

Had India no other gift for the world, Kriya Yoga alone would suffice as a kingly offering. - Paramahansa Yogananda.