Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake. If material poverty is to be avoided, spiritual poverty is to be abhorred. For it is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.
Paramahansa YoganandaYou do not have to struggle to reach God, but you do have to struggle to tear away the self-created veil that hides him from you
Paramahansa YoganandaEverything is Spirit - in essence, though hidden in manifestation. If you had the perception, you would see God in everything.
Paramahansa YoganandaThe kingdom of God is just behind the darkness of closed eyes, and the first gate that opens to it is your peace.
Paramahansa YoganandaBirths and deaths are inevitable for man only during the state of ignorance in which he thinks he is the body and cannot exist without it. Only the man who will not seek the awakening of wisdom must suffer the nightmares and delusive dreams of births and deaths and the fanciful miseries and limitations attending them. (gt)
Paramahansa Yogananda