It doesn't matter if a cave has been in darkness for 10,000 years or half an hour, once you light a match it is illuminated.
Paramahansa YoganandaIn the spiritual life one becomes just like a little child, without resentment, without attachment, full of life and joy.
Paramahansa YoganandaWhenever you want to produce something, do not depend upon the outside source: go deep and seek the Infinite Source.
Paramahansa YoganandaThe mother's love is not given to us to spoil us with indulgence, but to soften our hearts, that we may in turn soften others with kindness.
Paramahansa YoganandaAt physical death man loses his consciousness of the flesh and becomes conscious of his astral body in the astral world. Thus physical death is astral birth. Later, he passes from the consciousness of luminous astral birth to the consciousness of dark astral death and awakens in a new physical body. Thus astral death is physical birth. These recurrent cycles of physical and astral encasements are the ineluctable destiny of all unenlightened men.
Paramahansa Yogananda