Spirituality means seeking experience. Not just belief.

You can accept it that it may be true what somebody else says, but until you have experienced it, it is not dynamic to your own awareness.

My master’s visualizations were so powerful their condensation into matter was mere signature. Donald Walters, formerly Kriyananda, author of The Path about his guru Yogananda.

The two-fold goal of all human striving is the avoidance of pain, and the fulfillment of happiness.

Take whatever cause for outward happiness you might have and take it within yourself, so that, if the sun should go out, you will not be any less happy; if the birds stop singing you will not be any less happy.

To be happy, you must live in, but not for, the present moment.

If you want to do one good thing in the world, the best thing you can do is give other people joy.

It’s not insincere to say you’re happy if your determined to make it true and live in that consciousness.

Those who walk, run, or slide downhill eagerly would rather not think about the long, hard climb back up the hill again.

The real sign of His blessings is if you can have more and more happiness inside. Learn always to be happy; to be happy with the happiness of God. Even- minded and cheerful. This is the fastest route to divine bliss.