Everything is Spirit - in essence, though hidden in manifestation. If you had the perception, you would see God in everything.
Paramahansa YoganandaBy the practice of meditation, you will find that you are carrying within your heart a portable paradise.
Paramahansa YoganandaHow you all will change the work after I am gone. If I came back a hundred years from now, I just wonder if I would even recognize it.
Paramahansa YoganandaIf death were the end, then there is no God, and there are no realised masters - it is all a pack of lies. The great ones wouldn't urge you to became better, for what would be the use if, good or bad, we are all junked at the end of life? What would be the value of the scriptures? There would be no justice whatsoever if this present existence is all there is to each individual life. What of those souls who lived only a few years, or lived in blind or crippled bodies?
Paramahansa Yogananda