Paramhansa Quotes & Sayings

My Meema, her favorite show was 'Dallas.' She made the family watch. She loved to hate J.R. She passed away when I was 12, and I know she's looking down on me going, 'Oh, my goodness. How are you on the show? I am so proud of you and why in the hell are you playing J.R.'s son?' — Josh Henderson

I don't see myself as a role model; people should look to mothers and sisters as role models. — Lily Allen

The nearer you approach to God, the less you reason and argue. When you attain Him, then all sounds - all reasoning and disputing - come to an end. Then you go into samadhi - sleep - , into communion with God in silence. — Ramakrishna

They sell that shit to schoolkids. It's worse than that. How's that? Schoolkids buy it. — Cormac McCarthy

Do you know my attitude? Books, scriptures, and things like that only point out the way to reach God. After finding the way, what more need is there of books and scriptures? Then comes the time for action. — Ramakrishna

The more you depend on the will and Cosmic Energy to sustain yourself, the less your food requirements; the more you depend on food, the weaker your will and the less your recourse to Cosmic Energy. — Paramhansa Yogananda

Home is anywhere you're willing to stay - anywhere you're willing to make change — Joel Saunders Elmore

If you liked it, then you should have moved a mass inside its Roche limit. — Randall Munroe

Your master will bestow that experience shortly. Your body is not tuned just yet. As a small lamp cannot withstand excessive electrical voltage, so your nerves are unready for the cosmic current. If I gave you the infinite ecstasy right now, you would burn as if every cell were on fire. — Yogananda Paramhansa

The greatest sin is to call yourself a sinner. You are a child of God. Though gold be covered with mud for centuries, it remains gold. So the pure 'gold' of the soul can be covered over with the mud of delusion for aeons, but in its true nature it remains forever undefiled."
- Paramhansa Yogananda — Paramahansa Yogananda

In Creation it appears that God sleeps in the minerals, dreams in the flowers, awakens in the animals, and in man knows that He is awake. — Paramhansa Yogananda

I believe humility is a virtue, but I prefer not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary. — Helen Keller

After deep prayer and meditation the devotee is in touch with his divine consciousness; there is no greater power than that inward protection.
- Paramhansa Yogananda — Paramahansa Yogananda

This house was the only home he'd ever had, and he'd shared it with his mother up until two years before, when Dad and Chad moved — Janet Mock

My dreams came true while wearing the opening look from the spring/summer 2010 Dior ready-to-wear collection. I will never forget how special I felt opening John Galliano's show, like I was living a dream. — Karlie Kloss

Eating is one of my favorite parts of the day — Jennifer Lawrence

If you criticize others judgmentally, rather than simply commenting on their behavior impartially, that shows that you have their faults to work on in yourself. By criticizing others, moreover, you increase those faults in yourself. What you condemn in others, you will have to experience, someday, yourself. That is the karmic law. In that way, people are taught compassion.
- Paramhansa Yogananda — Paramahansa Yogananda

Chicago's such a great city because it's got so many different brilliantly architecturally looking buildings, and you can really modify that city. — Charles Roven

The problem with the law is that it's always there. There wasn't a vacation I took over the nine years I practiced - this was back in the dark ages - when I wasn't having faxes and FedExs literally sent to me on the beach in the Caribbean. I used to go on cruises not because I liked cruises, but because it was the one spot they couldn't get you. — Megyn Kelly

And go to San Francisco! It's one of the twelve most interesting cities in the world. California has immense contrasts - the utmost wealth and the most hideous squalor. But there's beauty and interest everywhere. — Oliver Sacks