Category Archives: Wisdom Quotes

No matter which way you turn a compass, its needle points to the north. So it is with the true yogi. Immersed he may be in many activities, but his mind is always on the Lord. His heart constantly sings: “My God, my God, most lovable of all!”

~ Paramahansa Yogananda

Rama asked:
Lord, what is the seed of this fearful tree known as the mind and what is the seed of that seed and so on?

Vasistha replied:
Rama, the seed for this world-appearance is the body within, with all its notions and concepts of good and evil.

That body has a seed, too, and that is the mind which flows constantly in the direction of hopes and desires, and which is also the repository of notions of being and non-being and the consequent sorrow.

The world-appearance arises only in the mind, and this is illustrated by the dream state.

Whatever is seen here as the world is but the expansion of the mind, even as pots are transformations of clay.

There are two seeds for the tree known as the mind which carries within it innumerable notions and ideas: first, movement of prana (lifeforce) and second obstinate fancy.

When there is movement of prana in the appropriate channels, then there is movement in consciousness and mind arises.

Again, it is the movement of prana alone, when it is seen or apprehended by the mind, that is seen as this world-appearance which is as real as the blueness of the sky.

The cessation of the movement of prana is the cessation of the world-appearance too.

~ Yoga Vashisth – (The Supreme Yoga)

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”

~ Socrates

Before you act, you have freedom, but after you act, the effect of that action will follow you whether you want it to or not. That is the law of karma. You are a free agent, but when you perform a certain act, you will reap the results of that act.

~ Paramahansa Yogananda

“As rain falls equally on the just and the unjust, do not burden your heart with judgements but rain your kindness equally on all.”

~ Buddha