Don't waste time in seeking little things. Naturally it is easier to get other gifts from God than the supreme gift of Himself. But don't be satisfied with anything less than the highest. - Paramahansa Yogananda 🌸💮🌸 #selfrealizationfellowship #srf #yss #fullertontemple #Perf

If others fool away their time, you be lost in God. You will go ahead. Let your example change others' lives. Reform yourself and you will reform thousands. - Paramahansa Yogananda 🌸💮🌸 #selfrealizationfellowship #srf #yss #fullertontemple #Perfection

Through the use of the Kriya key, persons who cannot bring themselves to believe in the divinity of any man will behold at last the full divinity of their own selves. - Paramahansa Yogananda 🌸💮🌸 #selfrealizationfellowship #srf #yss #fullertontemple #Perfection

At the morning hour of ten, one day after the body of Lahiri Mahasaya had been consigned to the flames, the resurrected master, in a real but transfigured body, appeared before three disciples, each of whom was in a different city. "So when... -Paramahansa Yogananda #srf #yss

One moon dispels the darkness of the heavens. Similarly, one soul who is trained to know God, a soul in whom there is true devotion and sincere seeking and intensity, will dispel the spiritual darkness of others wherever he will go. -Paramahansa Yogananda #srf #yss #yogananda

You should transfer your attention from failure to success, from worry to calmness, from mental wanderings to concentration, from restlessness to peace, and from peace to the divine bliss within. When you attain this state of Self-realization... -Paramahansa Yogananda #srf #yss

Meditate unceasingly, that you quickly behold yourself as the Infinite essence, free from every form of misery. Cease being a prisoner of the body; using the secret key of Kriya, learn to escape into Spirit. - Lahiri Mahasaya 🌸💮🌸 #selfrealizationfellowship #srf #yss

I am ever with those who practice Kriya. I will Guide you to the Cosmic Home Through your ever enlarging spiritual perceptions. - Lahiri Mahasaya 🌸💮🌸 #SelfRealizationFellowship #SRF #YSS #FullertonTemple #Perfection

Mahavatar Babaji to Lahiri Mahasaya: "The millions who are encumbered by family ties and heavy worldly duties will take new heart from you, a householder like themselves... A sweet new breath of divine hope will penetrate the arid hearts of worldly... -Mahavatar Babaji #SRF #YSS

Not through a desultory life but through a regular and balanced life will you receive the blessings of the Masters. Then evil will never use you as an instrument. - Paramahansa Yogananda 🌸💮🌸 #selfrealizationfellowship #srf #yss #fullertontemple #Balance

When you work for God, not self, it is just as good as meditation. Then work helps your meditation and meditation helps your work. You need the balance. with meditation only, you become lazy. With activity only, the mind becomes worldly and you... -Paramahansa Yogananda #srf #yss

Do not make unimportant things important, nor concentrate on trifles at the expense of vital matters, or you will hamper your progress. Impulsive actions that are not in keeping with one's duties are undesirable. -Paramahansa Yogananda #selfrealizationfellowship #srf #yss

Whether you are suffering in this life, or smiling with opulence and power, your consciousness should remain unchanged. If you can accomplish even-mindedness, nothing can ever hurt you. The lives of all great masters show that they have... -Paramahansa Yogananda #srf #yss

I will be calmly active, actively calm. I will not become lazy and mentally ossified. Nor will I be overactive, able to earn money but unable to enjoy life. I will meditate regularly to maintain true balance. -Paramahansa Yogananda #selfrealizationfellowship #srf #yss

The material and the spiritual are but two parts of one universe and one truth. By overstressing one part or the other, man fails to achieve the balance necessary for harmonious development...Practice the art of living in this world without... -Paramahansa Yogananda #srf #yss

Do not confuse understanding with a larger vocabulary. Sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one stanza at a time is slowly assimilated. Otherwise, continual intellectual study may result in vanity, false... -Swami Sri Yukteswar #srf #yss

Though you must remain in this world, be not of the world. Real yogis can talk and mingle with people, but all the while their minds are rapt in God. - Paramahansa Yogananda 🌸💮🌸 #selfrealizationfellowship #srf #yss #fullertontemple #Balance

Millions of people live a one-sided life and pass on in incompleteness. God has given each of us a soul, a mind, and a body, which we should try to develop uniformly. If you have led a life dominated by worldly influences, do not let the world... -Paramahansa Yogananda #srf #yss

Look fear in the face and it will cease to trouble you. Swami Sri Yukteswar 🌸💮🌸 #selfrealizationfellowship #srf #yss #fullertontemple #Balance

I know now that I am a lion of cosmic power. Bleating no more, I shake the error forest with reverberations of Thine almighty voice. In divine freedom I bound through the jungle of earthly delusions, devouring the little creatures of vexing... -Paramahansa Yogananda #srf #yss