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Exhaust your breath in practicing Kriya. Eventually breath will be Sthira, Tranquil.

Lahiri Mahasaya

Incredible amounts of energy are hidden in your brain; enough in a gram of flesh to run the city of Chicago for 2 days. And you say you are tired?

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Most of the world is like a mental hospital...

Paramahamsa Yogananda

I saw the greater Krishna.

Lahiri Mahasaya

When you are free from thinking of ordinary things, your mind will be absorbed in God, in the formless state of divinity.

Paramahamsa Hariharananda

The more you meditate, the more helpful you can be to others, and the more deeply you will be in tune with God.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

After realization, whether a jnani takes another body is up to them, because he or she has no remaining karma. First, seekers must decide whether they want realization. Then they must ask themselves why they want to be realized. Realization means to be free. Free from what? Free from all suffering: duhkha nivritti. If someone is free from all suffering, what happens? Eternal bliss. If the goal is to achieve eternal bliss by being free from suffering, whether a realized one returns or not, if they are in a state of bliss, does it matter if they stay or leave?

Paramahamsa Prajnanananda

Release for constructive purposes the power you already have, and more will come. Move on your path with unflinching determination, using all the attributes of success. Tune yourself with the creative power of spirit.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

When you worry, there is static coming through your mind radio. God's song is the song of calmness. Nervousness is the static; calmness is the voice of God speaking to you through the radio of your soul.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

To work with God's happiness bubbling in the soul is to carry a portable paradise within you wherever you go.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

If one scrutinizingly observes everything, then he will perceive that everything is the play of the soul.

Paramahamsa Hariharananda

Those who are unconquered in spirit are the real successes in life. If you can so train or condition your mind that you are content regardless of what you have or do not have, and if you can stand the challenge of all your trials and remain calm-that is true happiness.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

The entire universe is God's cosmic motion picture...

Paramahamsa Yogananda

Smiling away your troubles requires a clear conscience that harbors no insincerity.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

The ancient yogis discovered that the secret of cosmic consciousness is intimately linked with breath mastery. This is India's unique and deathless contribution to the world's treasury of knowledge. The life force, which is ordinarily absorbed in maintaining the heart-pump, must be freed for higher activities by a method of calming and stilling the ceaseless demands of the breath.

Sri Yukteswar Giri

A person is able to progress in every aspect of life when she or he practices the teachings of the Master with faith and love and incorporates them in daily life.

Swami Satyananda Giri

Who is allowing you to think? It is the light of consciousness that illumines the mind. It cannot be thought of by the mind because it rules the mind. Because of this light, the mind is able to function.

Paramahamsa Hariharananda

A sincere teacher can show others the right path to spiritual enlightenment.

Sanjal Mahasaya

Death is only an experience through which you are meant to learn a great lesson: you cannot die.

Paramahamsa Yogananda

If you write in reverse order and see it in the mirror, it looks straight. Similarly, if you make reverse the breath of the body, then you will see Swarupa, the form of your self.

Lahiri Mahasaya

Through the practice of Kriya Yoga, love flourishes.

Paramahamsa Hariharananda

Ignorance is removed automatically when the Kriya practice is perfect.

Lahiri Mahasaya

This world is a playground. The purpose of the play is divine bliss.

Paramahamsa Hariharananda