Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes

The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.

I am because we are. We all bleed the same color. We all want to love and be loved.

Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass.

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.

The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'

I love everybody. You have to embrace all facets of humanity; love and accept everyone as being part of yourself.

What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers.

Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police We must love one another or die.

I recognize every member of the human family as a brother; and if it was done by human beings, it was done by my brethren.

The children of Adam, created of the self-same clay, are members of one body. When one member suffers, all members suffer, likewise. O Thou, who art indifferent to the suffering of the fellow, thou art unworthy to be called a man. بنى آدم اعضای يك پیکرند که در آفرينش ز یک گوهرند چو عضوى به درد آورد روزگار دگر عضوها را نماند قرار تو کز محنت دیگران بی غمی نشاید که نامت نهند آدمی

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

Your fervent wishes can only find fulfillment if you succeed in attaining love and understanding of men, and animals, and plants, and stars, so that every joy becomes your joy and every pain your pain.

Because we all share an identical need for love, it is possible to feel that anybody we meet, in whatever circumstances, is a brother or sister.

I have been a lucky man. To feel the intimacy of brothers is a marvelous thing in life. To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life. But to feel the affection that comes from those whom we do not know, from those unknown to us, who are watching over our sleep and solitude, over our dangers and our weaknesses – that is something still greater and more beautiful because it widens out the boundaries of our being, and unites all living things.

Thou hast brought the distant near and made a brother of the stranger.

To feel the affection that comes from those whom we do not know ... widens out the boundaries of our being, and unites all living things.

The waves of hatred-night can easily be dissolved in the sea of oneness-love.

We need to put love back into the world remind the world that love is important. We're all one.

This is the principle of Universal Brotherhood of man with one another, with all life down to the little ants.

I love in you everybody, I love through you the world, I love in you also myself.

Every soul on earth is equally precious, even those of plants and animals. If you see love in one area and not another, then you are not reflecting true love for all creatures on earth, only a deficiency in your senses. The light of love sees no walls.

See others as yourself. See families as your family. See towns as your town. See countries as your country. See worlds as your world.

‎When you meet anyone, treat the event as a holy encounter. It's through others that we either find or love our self. For you see, nothing is accomplished without others. When you eliminate the concept of separation from your thoughts and your behavior, you begin to feel your connection to everything and everyone.