Goswami Kriyananda famous quotes

Intuition is the innate ability in everyone to perceive truth directly - not by reason, logic, or analysis, but by a simple knowing from within. That is the very meaning of the word "intuition": to know, or understand from within - from one's own self, and from the heart of whatever one is trying to understand. Intuition is the inner ability to see behind the outer forms of things to their inner essence.
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Heart #Simple #Self

If anything or anyone distresses you, think how you'll feel a week - a month - a year later. If you can imagine yourself being happy and peaceful then, why waste all that time? Be happy and peaceful now.
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Thinking #Years #Peaceful

If you want to know me, listen to my music.
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Want #Know Me

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

#Running #Thinking #Long

The mastery of any subject requires that one identify himself with the particular state of consciousness appropriate to that subject.
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Mastery #Consciousness #States

Society cannot but depend to a disproportionate degree on its capable few to develop and flourish.
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Degrees #Capable

Maturity is the ability to relate appropriately to other realities than one's own.
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Maturity #Reality #Ability

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

#Pain #Two #Goal

Trust life, even if you cannot trust people. For human nature is unreliable, but life itself is ruled by immutable law. Right action leads always, in the end, to victory.
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Life #Trust #Nature

As you begin this day, tell yourself, Today I am incarnated anew! I am released from the hypnosis of my old habits and mistakes! Everything that I have long dreamed of doing I will accomplish in this, my new life.
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Life #Mistake #Hypnosis

The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Being Happy #Determination #Waiting

Joy is not dependent upon outward circumstances. Joy is something that we can have under all circumstances when we are sad or happy. Outward circumstances are always neutral. They seem to be happy or sad according to the happy or sad attitudes of the mind.
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Happiness #Attitude #Joy

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

#Happiness #Moments #Present Moment

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Being Happy #Determination #Attitude

If it (the good circumstances) changes will you be able to keep onto your happiness just as much? Because if not then your happiness is really built on sand.
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Happiness #Able #Sand

A deliberate attitude that you have to hold in your mind as one of the basic rules of yoga is to remain even-minded and cheerful..
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Happiness #Attitude #Yoga

Happiness is like a plant: It must be watered daily with giving thoughts and actions.
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Happiness #Giving #Action

Laughter is a medicine you've got to use to drive away blues.
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Happiness #Laughter #Medicine

Be able to laugh at difficulties.
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Happiness #Laughing #Able

Happiness is NOW! It isn't tomorrow. It isn't yesterday. Happiness is like a morning glory: Yesterday's won't bloom again; tomorrow's hasn't opened yet. Only today's flower can be enjoyed today. Be happy this very moment, and you'll learn how to be happy always.
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Happiness #Morning #Flower

In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Distance #Islands #Diversity

There are realities we all share, regardless of our nationality, language, or individual tastes. As we need food, so do we need emotional nourishment: love, kindness, appreciation, and support from others.
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Appreciation #Kindness #Reality

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self- importance.
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Acceptance #Opportunity #Self

Self-acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously. Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Pain #Wall #Acceptance

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Happiness #Struggle #Years

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

#Happiness #People #Giving

The greatest thing that will please God is that you maintain an attitude of unshakable joy.
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Happiness #Attitude #Joy

Happiness is reverence for all life.
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Happiness #Life Happiness #Reverence

The "kingdom of heaven" to which he referred was the state of God-consciousness, not the beautiful astral heavens that most people visualize, where virtuous souls go after death.
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Beautiful #People #Heaven

See what is worth learning, and what is worth doing. Thus, you gain an understanding of what is vital, and what is not vital. You need to learn what is important and what is not important. You need to understand what will move you upwards and onwards, and what will hinder you from traveling the higher path.
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Moving #Understanding #Important

Happiness is a smile of comfort to the sorrowful.
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Happiness #Comfort #Sorrowful

Don't live to be unhappy, live to be happy. If you live to be happy you'll find the things that make you happy. And as you do that you find that sharing with others makes you much happier than taking from them.
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Happiness #Unhappy #Make You Happy

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

#Happiness #Determined #Consciousness

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Happiness #Understanding #Way

We've got to be long distance runners on the spiritual path. We want to run as fast as we can, but at the same time realize that if God isn't at the end of that 100 yards, we don't fall flat of exhaustion. We've got to have whatever rhythm it takes to be able to go on for incarnations until we find that state of perfection we've been seeking.
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Happiness #Spiritual #Running

Even-minded and cheerful. When things go bad, you'll find that the same kind of attitude comes to you naturally.
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Happiness #Attitude #Cheerful

Happiness is a question of attitude, not a question of what's happening out there.
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Happiness #Attitude

I've've seen some people like this that no matter what happens they've got something cheerful to feel about it. It's not always easy, but if we do it as a deliberate sward of battle rather then thinking 'Well, I'm not really feeling that way and therefore I shouldn't say that I am'. No! Make yourself that way!
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Happiness #Thinking #People

Be thou a true yogi. A yogi who understands that everything he's looking for is really inside himself. Learn to live more in the Self.
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Happiness #Self #Yogi

Learn to live more in the Self. Come down a little bit to eat and talk as necessary.
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Happiness #Self #Littles

Master said if you want to be happy no one in the world can take happiness from you; if you want to be unhappy, no one in the world can make you happy. So choose to be happy.
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Happiness #Unhappy #World

Whatever you experience outwardly, take it within yourself and say 'I'm happy because I'm happy. I'm happy because God is in my heart.'
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Happiness #Heart #My Heart

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.
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Happiness #Bird #Singing

Feel that you are happy without any cause for happiness.
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Happiness #Causes #Feels

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.
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Happiness #Real #Blessing

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.
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Powerful #Achievement #Signatures

Attachment is the state of ignorance or forgetfulness, and thus clinging to a memory of enjoyment
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Memories #Ignorance #Attachment

The secret of friendship is expressing kindness with your eyes and through the tone of your voice, not only with words.
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Kindness #Eye #Voice

Become more and more centered in the Self. To live more and more in the thought that God is here in your consciousness.
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Happiness #Self #Consciousness

Happiness is self-generated. It depends on one's attitude of mind. The basis of happiness, is the simple fact that the deepest reality of our own nature is ever-existing, ever-conscious, ever-new joy.
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Happiness #Attitude #Simple

That's what life is for, to find that joy in yourself.
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Happiness #Joy #Life Is

Live more quietly. Live more seeking God's presence in your own heart.
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Happiness #Heart #Seeking God

Understand that there is no relationship between your inner happiness and your inner joy and the outer things that you experience and behold in the world, that it all begins with you, the world is a mirror to your own Self, when you can look at things and feel joy not in the things but in yourself.
-- Goswami Kriyananda

#Happiness #Mirrors #Self