Long before it became popular, Yogananda began collecting and composing short affirmations and reflections, to be pondered on a daily basis for the elevation of the mind. Below are some quotes for reflection which he collected for the month of August.
- For it is only the finite that has wrought and suffered; the infinite lies stretched in smiling repose. –Emerson.
- Ever seek to promote the good of others; the best riches are universal benevolence. –Hindu Scriptures.
- Annihilate the selfhood in me: be Thou all my life. –William Blake.
- Nothing lessens misfortune like patience. –Ibn Gabirol.
- Seek bliss in both worlds by serving Him, Put away the tale of love that travelers tell; Do thou serve God with all thy might. –Rumi.
- Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power. –Seneca.
- They are beggars that can count their worth. –Shakespeare.
- The student who daily recognizes how much he yet lacks, and as the months pass forgets not what he has succeeded in learning, may undoubtedly be called a lover of learning. –Tsze-hia.
- The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. –Marcus Aurelius.
- If this birth really happens no creature can hinder thee, all points thee to God and this birth. –Eckhart.
- Learning, without thought, is a snare; thought, without learning, is a danger. –Confucius.
- When you have accepted the Light oh Beloved, When you behold what is veiled without a veil, Like a star you will walk upon the heavens. –from the Masnavi.
- Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. –Jesus Christ.
- You cannot run away from a weakness; you must ‘ sometime fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand? –R. L. Stevenson.
- He is richest who is content with the least; for content is the wealth of nature. –Socrates.
- Forbearance is at first like poison but when ingrained in the nature it becomes like honey. –Sadi.
- Stand ever firm within, resolved to do or die; So, living, earn renown; or dead, the starry sky. –Panchatantra.
- There never was a false God, nor was there ever really a false religion, unless you call a child a false man. –Max Muller.
- You will find that when you cease to take thought for your own deliverance, God will take thought for you; and when you cease to help yourself eagerly He will help you. –St. Francis de Sales.
- Uncertainly I steer through complex ways My soul from masquerade to masquerade. –R. J. Freeman.
- The best path through life is the high road, which initiates us at the right moment into all experience. –Amiel.
- Wisely and slow: they stumble that run fast. –Shakespeare.
- Those who worship the Merciful One are they who walk on the earth gently, and who, when fools speak to them, say “Peace.” –Koran.
- God was made man that man might become God.–St. Augustine.
- The sage attends to the inner and not to the outer; he puts away the objective and holds to the subjective. –Lao Tze.
- When all thoughts, all words and all deeds are given up unto the Lord, and the least forgetfulness of God makes one intensely miserable, then love has begun. –Narada.
- The superior man can be high without being haughty. The inferior man can be haughty if not high. –Confucius.
- To learn and discern of his brother the clod, And his brother the beast, and his brother the God. –L. Adams Beck.
- Pain melted in tears and was pleasure, Death tingled with blood and was life. –Swinburne.
- We will have no thirst for yesterday, no thought for tomorrow. –Vachel Lindsay.
- As thrills of long hushed tone live in the viol, so our souls grow fine with keen vibration from the touch of noble natures gone. –J. R. Lowell.
“Learning, without thought, is a snare; thought, without learning, is a danger.” –Confucius.
“The sage attends to the inner and not to the outer; he puts away the objective and holds to the subjective.” –Lao Tse.
“God was made man that man might become God.” –St. Augustine.
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