Yes, it does take long, but eventually the dots always connect, and that makes the wait worthwhile.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scientists experiment in their laboratories with patient perseverance to find the truth. They don’t assert their theories unless they have positive proof. Likewise, India’s masters concentrated for years and years to solve the problem of how to live life properly. I am bringing to you the knowledge of mind and matter from the spiritual laboratories of India, as well as from my own experience. - Paramahansa Yogananda.

What is most important is to have a way to prove truth by our own Self-realization. We should not believe a thing just because somebody has said it… All truth must be tested and experienced by the scientific application of material, mental, and spiritual laws. - Paramahansa Yogananda.

Since ancient times, religious experiments have given India’s yogis knowledge of truths only now being “discovered” in the West by pragmatic scientific research. There is a definite need today for scientific religious experimentation applying the yogic methods of India. - Paramahansa Yogananda.

Religion should be treated as a science; it is right that it be subjected to the test of experience. - Paramahansa Yogananda.

In ages past, the rishis and masters of India, secluded in their hermitages, unraveled the mysteries that hide the Omnipresent Spirit. Their research has given us the valuable techniques and methods that tune the body and mind to the Illimitable Source of life and intelligence residing in every human being. By concentrating within on the Infinite, you can receive this boundless power. - Paramahansa Yogananda.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Let go of the helm of life, and let the current pull you in your chart's direction. - Sylvia Browne.

The other side is your real home, and it's possible that you will feel a form of homesickness while in this life - Sylvia Browne.

 

 

Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is a superhuman achievement. - Albert Camus.

Learn to be happy in your own company. - Anonymous.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Don’t keep your mind engaged in too many activities. Analyze what you get from them, and see if they are really important. Don’t waste your time...I often say, “If you read for one hour, write in your spiritual diary for two hours; and if you write for two hours, think for three hours; and if you think for three hours, meditate all the time.” No matter where I go, I keep my mind continuously on my soul peace. You too should always point the needle of your attention toward the North Pole of spiritual joy. Then no one can ever disturb your equilibrium. - Paramahansa Yogananda.

Meditation is the effort to realize and express that pure consciousness which is the reflection, or image, of God within you. Do away with the delusion of body consciousness, and the concomitant demands of body and mind for “unnecessary necessities.” Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become. - Paramahansa Yogananda.

Disillusionment is not a bad thing as, if your illusions are shattered, it means you are getting closer to reality. - Sadhguru.

 

 

If you keep your pride, your ego, and your self-significance down, you will become available to grace. - Sadhguru.

 

There can be no lotus flower without mud. - Anonymous.

With the power of faith, march on, march on! By daily meditation, never forget Him. Every day new vistas and new revelations of His presence will come to you. Strength will come; for His power is there. Acknowledge it firmly; let it sink calmly into the depths of your being. When by the science of controlling the life energy [Kriya Yoga] you master the subtle forces through which He creates and sustains all things, you will share in His dominion over all creation. - Paramahansa Yogananda.

Faith means total trust — intuitive conviction, a knowing from the soul, that God is real, and that His help is ever ready to flow into man’s life. - Paramahansa Yogananda.

One kind word can warm three winter months. - Japenese Proverb.

Yoga is for everyone. No one is too old, too stiff, too fat or thin, or tired. - B. K. S. Iyengar.

Anybody can workout. It takes a Yogi to work in. - Anonymous.

An ordinary man seeks freedom through enlightenment. An enlightened man expresses freedom through being ordinary. - Adyashanti.

Whoever brought me here will have to take me home. - Rumi.

If you feel like you do not fit in this world, it is because you are here to help create a new one. - Anonymous.

Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom. - William Jordan.

Indispensable Man

By Saxon White Kessinger

Sometimes when you’re feeling important;

Sometimes when your ego’s in bloom

Sometimes when you take it for granted

You’re the best qualified in the room,

Sometimes when you feel that you're going

Would leave an unfillable hole,

Just follow these simple instructions

And see how they humble your soul;

Take a bucket and fill it with water,

Put your hand in it up to the wrist,

Pull it out and the hole that’s remaining

Is a measure of how you’ll be missed.

You can splash all you wish when you enter,

You may stir up the water galore,

But stop and you’ll find that in no time

It looks quite the same as before.

The moral of this quaint example

Is do just the best that you can,

Be proud of yourself but remember,

There’s no indispensable man.

We call them leaders because they go first because they take the risk before anybody else does because they will choose to sacrifice so their people will be safe and protected. - Simon Sinek.

Sometimes you find your path, sometimes it finds you. - Max Brooks.

Teachers who love teaching, teach children to love learning. - Anonymous.

The wonder of teaching is watching caterpillars become butterflies. - Anonymous.

The deeper you go within yourself, the more you begin to realize that you are far more powerful than you have been permitted to believe. - Anonymous.

Storms make trees take deeper roots. - Anonymous.

Humanity is our uniting religion, breath our uniting prayer, and consciousness our uniting God. - Yogiraj Satgurunath Siddhanath.

In spite of all drawbacks and in spite of the downfall the spirit of Indian culture, its central ideas, and its best ideals have still their message for humanity and not for India alone. - Sri Aurobindo.

There is nothing too small for gratitude. - Mary Davis.

It might take a year, it might take a day, but what's meant to be will always find its way. - Anonymous.

As soon as we take one thing by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. - John Muir.

Understand that everyone here on earth is learning just as you are and not everyone learns at the same pace or even the same lessons as you. - Anonymous.

 

The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort. - Confucius.

A man who has reformed himself will reform thousands. - Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda.

This path may not have been where you wanted to go or made you who you wanted to be. But, as painful and challenging as this transition can be, it can also be beautiful and rewarding in many ways. These changes, these challenges are not meant to break you, but to encourage you and help you grow. Amidst all the changes and this growth, you will find it was worth it all along. One day you will look back and remember this moment, the moment you decided to take the risk and change your life forever. - Anonymous.

What is yours will find you. - Anonymous.

When you sit in the silence of deep meditation, joy bubbles up from within, roused by no outer stimulus. The joy of meditation is overwhelming. Those who have not gone into the silence of true meditation do not know what real joy is. - Paramahansa Yogananda.

There is no separation between that what you call God and that what you call creation. - The Mother.

These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb. - Najwa Zebian.

"I cannot explain how I feel," said the Tiny Dragon.

Big Panda smiled. "That's Ok. Words are not adequate for all things."

"We are lost again." said the Big Panda.

"When I'm lost," said the Tiny Dragon, "I find it helps to go back to the beginning and try to remember why I started."

Yoga has a sly, clever way of short-circuiting the mental patterns that cause anxiety. - Anonymous.

The Saint and the Scorpion
By Nayaswami Devi

There is a story about a saint who was peacefully meditating under a tree along the banks of the Ganges. At a certain point, he heard a rustling overhead and opened his eyes to see a large scorpion moving along a branch overhanging the river.

When the creature reached the end of the branch, it fell into the water below. Filled with compassion, the saint waded into the river to rescue it. Cupping his hands together, he lifted the drowning scorpion and placed him gently on the river’s bank. In return for his kindness, the scorpion stung him.

Unperturbed, the saint then returned to the peace of his meditation. Again he heard a rustling overhead, again the scorpion plunged into the water, and again the saint rescued him, only to be stung.

When this happened a third time, a passerby who had been observing the drama could no longer contain himself. Approaching the saint, he asked, “Sir, why do you continue to rescue the scorpion, when each time he stings you?”

“Well,” the saint replied, his eyes luminous with divine love, “you see, it is the nature of the scorpion to sting. He cannot help himself.”

“That may be so, reverend sir, but knowing this, why do you continue to rescue him?” the passerby asked.

“You see, my child, I too cannot help myself. It is my nature to help him.”

This story provides us with a valuable lesson on how to live. Each of us encounters “human scorpions” filled with venom and spite whose sting can cause us suffering. But whether insects or human beings, such creatures are driven by instinct or the compulsions of past karma, and have no choice but to sting whenever they feel threatened.

The saint, by choosing to attune his consciousness to God’s love, had the freedom to express that love under all circumstances. Like the saint, we, too, can choose to align our actions with divine love and peace, no matter what is happening around us.

At first, this choice requires an act of will, as the ego tries to protect itself. With repeated effort and determination, however, the choice becomes “second nature.” Unlike the scorpion driven by instinct, we find that the higher path, illumined by a constant flow of divine grace, opens clearly before us.

In a sense, all decisions in life then become very simple. As a great saint once said, “We have but one decision to make in life: whether to think of God or not.” All the rest are details.

The big lesson in life is never to be scared of anyone or anything. - Frank Sinatra.

My will is a part of the eternal will. My fate is what my spirit's strength can make. My fate is what my spirit's strength can bear. My strength is not the Titans; it is God's. - Sri Aurobindo.

Life is going to give you a lot of reasons to be angry, you only need one to be grateful. - Anonymous.

God is not partial. His spirit is as fully within you as it was in Jesus and the great Masters. Find it by making your mind more transparent, and more receptive. The more you meditate and remember that image of God, the more you will feel God’s harmony uniting all things. Meditation and holding on to God’s presence in that inner calmness all day long is what is necessary. - Paramahansa Yogananda.

Through meditation, and acting in harmony with divine law, you link your individuality to Cosmic Intelligence, and become one with that Intelligence in the tiniest atom and the farthest star — and in Infinitude, whence universes come and whither they return. - Paramahansa Yogananda.

Meditation opens wide all the closed inner doors of your body, mind, and soul to admit the surge of God’s power. Your whole body and entire being changes when you practice meditation regularly. When you really contact God, all things become harmonious; all things melt into an ocean of peace. But you have to practice meditation earnestly, consistently, and continually, in order to have the full consciousness of that supreme force. - Paramahansa Yogananda.

The best things in life are not things. - Anonymous.

The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural and real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of India are the tender expressions that carry the mark of the Creator's hand. - George Bernard Shaw.

There are some parts of the world that once visited get into your heart and won't go. For me, India is such a place. - Keith Bellows.

Perhaps in return for arrogance and spoliation, India will teach us the gentleness of a mind, the quiet content of the uninquisitive soul, and a pacifying love for all living things. - Will Durant.

India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grandmother of tradition. Our most valuable and most constructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only. - Mark Twain.

India was the motherland of our race and Sanskrit was the mother of Europe's languages. India was the mother of our philosophy, much of our mathematics, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; of self-government and democracy. In many ways, Mother India is the mother of us all. - Will Durant.

Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world. - Paramahansa Yogananda.

The greater the will, the greater the flow of energy. The greater the flow of energy, the greater the magnetism. - Paramahansa Yogananda.

Your trails did not come to punish you, but to awaken you. - Paramahansa Yogananda.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. - Khalil Gibran.

Doesn't matter how far you travel, you can never escape your "self". - Anonymous.

To strive. to seek, to find, and not to yield. - Ulysses.

The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. - Anonymous.

Be careful how you are talking to yourself because you are listening. - Anonymous.

Even by the mind, this truth is to be learned: there are not many but only one. - Katha Upanishad.

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

Greatness comes from small beginnings. - Anonymous.

When I read the Bhagavad Gita and reflect about how God created this universe, everything else seems so superfluous. I have made the Bhagavad Gita as the source of my inspiration and guide for the purpose of scientific investigation and formation of my theories. - Albert Einstien.