Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes

If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else.

You either control your mind or it controls you.

You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.

All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power.

When people learn to master their feelings, they can soon learn to master their reflections and thoughts in the degree requisite for attaining the objects they are seeking. But while they yield to a feeling or spirit that distracts their minds from a subject they wish to study and learn, so long they will never gain the mastery of their minds.

One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

Rule your mind or it will rule you.

Every human being has the ability to completely control his own mind.

The more meditation goes deep, the more you will become master of your own thoughts. You will say, "Stop!" and the mind stops. You will say, "Move!" and the mind begins to move. Once this capacity comes to you, you will not fall down again. Unless this is achieved, if you discontinue meditation, soon every result will be washed away.

He is thoughtful whose mind is directed by his will, whose mind fulfills his intentions, whose mind is under the control of his intention... It is not till a person has gained mastery over his mind, till he is above this activity, that he is a ruling power, a true person.

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.

The greatest possession is self-possession.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

The problem is to keep the monkey mind from running off into all kinds of thoughts.

You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them.

You can't control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.

The mind is such a powerful thing, and when you learn how to control that it really turns a lot of things around.

Being able to control your mind is a beautiful thing.

Those who have succeeded in attaching or detaching their minds at will have succeeded in Pratyahara, which means gathering towards, checking the outgoing powers of the mind, freeing it from the thralldom of the senses. When we can do this, we shall really possess character; then alone we shall have taken a long step towards freedom. Before that, we are mere machines.

Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts.

Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

Discipline is necessary to curb the mind, otherwise there is no peace.