Happiness

How to Live in the Eternal Present

by Paramhansa Yogananda

Even to live your best each day is not the deepest teaching, for today belongs to the flow of time, whereas perfect joy and awareness lie beyond time, in the eternal present. It is important, therefore, to learn to live behind the scenes of relative time, in the unchanging present.

Happiness

Learn to Express Your True Personality

by Paramhansa Yogananda

Strive always to develop a personality that is derived from living in the continuous consciousness of God. Any other personality will bring disenchantment in its wake because all human expressions have their limitations.

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How to Have Courage, Calmness, and Confidence

Remember that your difficulties did not come to crush you, but to strengthen your determination to use your limitless divine powers to succeed. God wants you to conquer the difficult tests of life and to come back to His home of wisdom.

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Keys to Spiritual Progress: A Checklist

Spiritual progress is achieved above all by desiring it intensely. Know that you are growing spiritually when your entire consciousness, no matter what your faults, is turned to God.

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Humor: A Smile a Day

by Clarity Magazine

There is no better panacea for sorrow, no better reviving tonic, and no greater beauty than a genuine smile. —Paramhansa Yogananda

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Quotations: Gratitude

Find something each day for which to give thanks, and thus form the habit of gratitude for all the good gifts the Father has bestowed upon us.

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Adventures in Time Travel

The next morning the boys entered the large hole in the back wall, which in fact was a tunnel leading gently downward. The first thing they noticed as they got deeper inside was a low humming sound.

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A Story of Two Frogs

After many hours of word-battle in frog language, the sea-frog persuaded the frog of the well and his brother-frogs to visit the ocean.

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Humor: A Smile a Day

by Clarity Magazine

There is no better panacea for sorrow, no better reviving tonic, and no greater beauty than a genuine smile. —Paramhansa Yogananda A Simple Operation “Why did you run out of the operating room?” a hospital administrator asked a nervous patient. “The patient replied, “Because the nurse said, ‘Don’t be so jittery, an appendectomy is a simple operation.” “So?” said the … Read More

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A Story of Two Frogs

After many hours of word-battle in frog language, the sea-frog persuaded the frog of the well and his brother-frogs to visit the ocean.

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All For a Rag

This story illustrates that if you leave the world for God, see that you also forsake worldly thoughts from within. Otherwise, wherever you go, your worldliness will go with you, attracting to you a worldly environment.

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Mr. Roquefort Cheese

Everything went well until the Roquefort cheese was served. I viewed the little green specks of mold with great suspicion. My soul rebelled against it, and my brain cells warned me to have nothing to do with it.

Happiness

Humor: A Smile a Day

by Clarity Magazine

There is no better panacea for sorrow, no better reviving tonic, and no greater beauty than a genuine smile. —Paramhansa Yogananda

Happiness

Humor: A Smile a Day

by Clarity Magazine

There is no better panacea for sorrow, no better reviving tonic, and no greater beauty than a genuine smile. —Paramhansa Yogananda

Happiness

A Smile a Day

by Clarity Magazine

There is no better panacea for sorrow, no better reviving tonic, and no greater beauty than a genuine smile. —Paramhansa Yogananda