Those in the West who have adopted Christ as their own should remember that he was an Oriental. Love and sympathy for Jesus should be expanded into l… - Paramahansa Yogananda

The greatest sin is to call yourself a sinner. You are a child of God. Though gold be covered with mud for centuries, it remains gold. So the pure ‘gold’ of the soul can be covered over with the mud of delusion for aeons, but in its true nature it remains forever undefiled.” — Paramhansa Yogananda

Nor doomsday’s thunderous roar,
Dismantling earth and stars — The cosmic beauties all to mar — Not Nature’s murderous mutiny,
Nor man’s exploding destiny
Can touch me here.

Grosser light vanishes into eternal rays
Of all-pervading Cosmic Joy.
From Joy we come,
For Joy we live,
In the sacred Joy we melt.