I don't want people to think that they can attain realization simply by listening to others or by reading books. They must practice what they read and hear.
Paramahansa YoganandaIn your heart must well that sympathy which soothes away all pains from the hearts of others.
Paramahansa YoganandaDeath is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He who has fled his Self in earthly joys will not recapture It amidst the gossamer charms of an astral world. There he merely accumulates finer perceptions and more sensitive responses to the beautiful and the good, which are one. It is on the anvil of this gross earth that struggling man must hammer out the imperishable gold of spiritual identity.
Paramahansa YoganandaIf circumstances are bad and you have to bear them, do not make them a part of yourself.
Paramahansa Yogananda