Are moral values truly arbitrary and subjective? Can we really say people can just do what they like, and that there are no personal consequences they will have to suffer, outside of the need to maintain social order?
Courtesy is a healing balm; it can soothe troubled hearts, and win cooperation even from the hostile.
Yoga makes us more aware of ourselves as bodies of energy, not merely of material substance. The more aware we become that we are energy, the greater control we have in our lives.
Paramhansa Yogananda told us more than once that in a former life he had been William the Conqueror.
How do you react when a test comes? You won’t be worthy of God if you try to run away from your difficulties. ”
Never lend money unless you can feel, in your heart, that you are giving the money away.
What exactly do we mean by saying we have been given free will? If all actions are done by God, how are we free?
Master seldom praised me for my labor. But he sometimes praised me for my devotion.
Most people equate wealth with investments, savings, income, or real property. Yet we’ve all known people who got by quite happily on very little money.
Yogananda never forgot for an instant that the real Doer was God. Inwardly, he was always free and at peace.
