Love is the song of the soul, singing to God. - Paramahansa Yogananda

Persons of strong character are usually the happiest. They do not blame others for troubles that can be traced to their own actions and lack of understanding. They know that no one has the power to add to their happiness or detract
from it, unless they themselves allow the adverse thoughts or wicked actions of others to affect them.

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.

You go often into the silence, but have you developed anubhava?” He was reminding me to love God more than meditation. “Do not mistake the technique for the Goal.