Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes

Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.

I found my faith to be more about my belief, my spirituality, about nature.

Think of God more often than thou breathest.

No armies are needed, no weapons are needed, no nations are needed, no religions are needed. All that is needed is a little meditativeness, a little silence, a little love, a little more humanity... just a little more, and existence will become fragrant with something so totally unique and new that you will have to find a new category for it.

Peace is the altar of God, the condition in which happiness exists.

In New York City, a lot of people think "the great outdoors" is the area between your front door and a taxi cab.

Let your mind wander in the pure and simple. Be one with the infinite. Let all things take their course.

The man of prayer will be at peace with himself and with the whole world.

I think that would be great, if I could be in a city and wasn't even allowed to work.

If someone were to ask me whether I believed in God, or saw God, or had a particular relationship with God, I would reply that I don't separate God from my world in my thinking. I feel that God is everywhere. That's why I never feel separated from God or feel I must seek God, any more than a fish in the ocean feels it must seek water. In a sense, God is the "ocean" in which we live.

So, you pay attention to what is in every moment. And when you do that, then you realize that the presence of God is everywhere.

I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed, Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God.

I think there's a lot that's beautiful about religion and very inspiring, obviously, but I do think that God needs to be rescued from religion actually.

Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.

Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen.

Friends, do not be afraid of silence or stillness. Listen to God. Adore Him in the Eucharist.

Sow love, reap peace. Sow meditation, reap wisdom.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence.

When I meditate, I clearly see that God is already seated inside my heart.

Chanting Hare Krishna is a type of meditation that can be practiced even if the mind is in turbulence. You can even be doing it and other things at the same time. That's what's so nice. In my life there's been many times the mantra brought things around. It keeps me in tune with reality, and the more you sit in one place and chant, the more incense you offer to Krishna in the same room, the more you purify the vibration, the more you can achieve what you're trying to do, which is just trying to remember God, God, God, God, God, as often as possible.

In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors.

I always begin my prayer in silence, for it is in the silence of the heart that God speaks. God is the friend of silence-we need to listen to God because it's not what we say but what He says to us and through us that matters.

Work for god, love god alone, and be wise with god. When an ordinary man puts the necessary rime and enthusiasm into meditation and prayer, he becomes a divine man.

The man who eats to live, who is friends with the five powers - earth, water, ether, sun and air - who is a servant of God, the Creator of all these, ought not to fall ill.

I can live in Paris for four months or London or, you know, Barcelona. These are places that are like New York. But I don't think I could live in many places. When I had to make a film in the United States I picked San Francisco because to me it's one of the great cities of America.