Material objects which give joy remain outside of the mind; they only gain entry into the mind through imagination. Joy, from its very nature, is something born of the mind and lives closest in it. External, material objects can be destroyed, but this joy within can never be destroyed if one knows how to keep it and unless the possessor of joy changes his mind and becomes sorrowful. This joy is ever-new and indestructible.
Paramhansa Yogananda
That one I love who is incapable of ill will, and returns love for hatred. Living beyond the reach of I and mine, and of pain and pleasure, full of mercy, contented, self-controlled, of firm resolve, with all his heart and all his mind given to Me – with such a one I am in love.
– Bhagavad Gita
If you succeed in finding happiness in your soul, then even though you die tomorrow and join the long procession of departed souls that slowly moves down pillared corridors of centuries, you will always carry with you that priceless treasure.
– Paramhansa Yogananda
Outward environment and the company you keep is of paramount importance. The specific outer environment of early life is specially important in stimulating or stifling inner instinctive environment of a child. A child is usually born with a pre-natal mental environment. This is stimulated if the outer environment is like the inner environment, but if the outer environment is different from it, the inner environment is likely to be suppressed. An instinctively bad child may be suppressed and made good in good company, and vice versa, while an instinctively good child placed in good company would, no doubt, increase his goodness.
Paramhansa Yogananda
Your duty is to be and not to be this or that. ‘I am that I am’ sums up the whole truth. The method is summed up in the words ‘Be still’. What does stillness mean? It means destroy yourself. Because any form or shape is the cause for trouble. Give up the notion that ‘I am so and so’. All that is required to realize the Self is to be still. What can be easier than that?
– Raman Maharishi
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
– Ramakrishna Paramahansa
If you are a slave to your senses, you cannot be happy. If you are a master of your desires and appetites, you can be a really happy person. If you overeat against you will; if you wish anything contrary to your conscience; if you act wrongly, forced by your senses, against the wish of your Inner Self, then you cannot be happy. People who are slaves to the senses find that their evil habits compel them to do things that will hurt them. Stubborn bad habits bludgeon your will power every time it tries to take the lead and guide your thoughts to the kingdom of right action. The remedy lies in rescuing your will power from the imprisoning power of the senses.
– Paramahansa Yogananda
Develop the love of God so that I see in your eyes that you are drunk with God and not asking, “When will I have God?” When you ask that, you are not a devotee. The devotee says: “I have Him, He is listening to me; my Beloved is always with me. He is moving my hands; He is digesting my food; He is gazing at me through the stars.”
– Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda
Dr. Froylan Alvarado Guemez Pierre Teilhard de Chardi, of the Jesuit order. Born in Orcines, on May 1, 1881 and died in New York on April 10, 1995. It was the French theologian, philosopher and paleontologist who built an integrated vision of science and mysticism with his thought; of the evolution of spirit and thought.
▪ _Religion is not just one, there are hundreds._
▪ Spirituality is one.
▪ _Religion is for those who sleep._
▪ Spirituality is for those who are awake.
▪ _Religion is for those who need someone to tell them what to do and want to be guided._
▪ Spirituality is for those who pay attention to their inner voice.
▪ _Religion has a set of dogmatic rules._
▪ Spirituality invites us to reason about everything, to question everything.
▪ _Religion threatens and frightens._
▪ Spirituality gives inner peace.
▪ _Religion speaks of sin and guilt._
▪ Spirituality says, “learn from error”.
▪ _Religion represses everything and in some cases it is false._
▪ Spirituality transcends everything, it brings you closer to your truth!
▪ _Religion speaks of a god; It is not God._
▪ Spirituality is everything and, therefore, it is in God.
▪ _Religion invents._
▪Spirituality finds.
▪ _Religion does not tolerate any question._
▪Spirituality questions everything.
▪ _Religion is human, it is an organization with men’s rules._
▪ Spirituality is Divine, without human rules.
▪ _Religion is the cause of divisions._
▪The spirituality unites.
▪ _Religion is looking for you to believe._
▪ Spirituality you have to look for it to believe.
▪ _Religion follows the precepts of a sacred book._
▪ Spirituality seeks the sacred in all books.
▪ _Religion feeds on fear._
▪ Spirituality feeds on trust and faith.
▪ _Religion lives in thought._
▪ Spirituality lives in Consciousness.
▪ _Religion deals with doing._
▪ Spirituality has to do with the Self.
▪ _Religion feeds the ego._
▪ Spirituality drives to transcend.
▪ _Religion makes us renounce the world to follow a God._
▪ Spirituality makes us live in God, without renouncing us.
▪ _Religion is a cult._
▪ Spirituality is meditation.
▪ _Religion fills us with dreams of glory in paradise._
▪ Spirituality makes us live the glory and paradise here and now.
▪ _Religion lives in the past and in the future._
▪ Spirituality lives in the present.
▪ _Religion creates cloisters in our memory._
▪ Spirituality liberates our Consciousness.
▪ _Religion makes us believe in eternal life._
▪ Spirituality makes us aware of Eternal Life.
▪ _Religion promises life after death._
▪ Spirituality is to find God in our interior during life and death.🙏🏻
_-We are not human beings who go through a spiritual experience.-_
*-We are spiritual beings that we go through a human experience.-*
In practical daily life we are hurt by small things; we are enslaved by little things. Misery comes because we think we are finite – we are little beings. And yet, how difficult it is to believe that we are infinite beings! In the midst of all this misery and trouble, when a little thing may throw me off balance, it must be my care to believe that I am infinite. And the fact is that we are, and that consciously or unconsciously we are all searching after that something which is infinite; we are always seeking for freedom.
Swami Vivekananda