The soul is bound to the body by a chain of desires, temptations, troubles and worries, and it is trying to free itself. If you keep tugging at that chain which is holding you to mortal consciousness, some day an invisible Divine Hand will intervene and snap it apart and you will be free.
Paramahansa YoganandaA good rule in life is to tell yourself simply, 'What comes of itself, let it come.
Paramahansa YoganandaWhatever you want others to be, first be that yourself. Then, you will find others responding in like manner to you.
Paramahansa YoganandaLove is the song of the soul singing to God. It is the balanced rhythmic dance of planets - sun and moon lit
Paramahansa YoganandaThose in the West who have adopted Christ as their own should remember that he was an Oriental. Love and sympathy for Jesus should be expanded into love and sympathy for all Orientals, and for all the world.
Paramahansa YoganandaThe way to liberation lies through this realization of the Self, by God-communion and by remaining in this God-aware state of the soul while performing dutiful actions. Any individual can reach this supreme actionless state by the renunciation of all fruits of actions: performing all dutiful acts without harbouring in his heart any likes and dislikes, possessing no material desires, and feeling God, not the ego, as the Doer of all actions.
Paramahansa Yogananda