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Words of Yogananda and Kriyananda
This mini-blog is just to record short quotes of Yogananda and Kriyananda in a less formal manner than the ananda.org web site or even the blog A Place Called Ananda. For more in depth information click on one of these links I just mentioned.
“ July 6. If someone accuses you of something you did in the past, say, “What matters is not what happened in the past, but what I am now.” If you have changed, say so. But if the accusation is invalid, the question of change doesn’t arise. If your accuser is right, and you have still to change sufficiently, reply instead, “Is anyone perfect? And do you think I need your permission to clean my own laundry?” To finish the thought, even if your accuser is in every way mistaken, you might say to him, “I am what I am before my conscience and God.” In this way, you will refrain from lowering yourself to self-justification or counter-accusation. If your accuser has been actually vicious, however, you might reply, “Do your own laundry!
Swami Kriyananda writing as J Donald Walters in hs new, soon to be published book “Do It Well”
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“ July 5. My bottom line for many years has been, not money or profit, but inner peace. I’ve refused to allow anything to stress me to the point of stealing away that treasure. It is better, I’ve felt—and experience has borne me out—to leave undone even important things, if attention to them might undermine my peace. For without peace, one is all too prone to error. From inner peace, moreover, come enlightened decisions. People’s expectations of me can never equal what is expected of me by God.
Swami Kriyananda writing as J Donald Walters in hs new, soon to be published book “Do It Well”
“ July 4. Independence Day in America: The political and national freedom celebrated this day were supposed to give all men a chance to rise to their own highest potential. Independence was meant to be applied directionally; it has taken time for blacks, and then women, to be given the right to vote. The time has now come for another freedom to be declared: freedom of conscience. This declaration, however, can be made only by and for yourself. Let no one pressure you into thinking and behaving like anyone else. God has a special melody to sing through you, one which only you can offer to the world.
Swami Kriyananda writing as J Donald Walters in hs new, soon to be published book “Do It Well”
“ July 3. Make contentment your criterion of prosperity. Wealth is primarily the consciousness of abundance. And poverty is the consciousness of lack. You can be rich though dressed in a loincloth and living under a tree, and poor though residing in a proud mansion, served by bustling servants, surrounded by rich furnishings, and possessing a bank account that contains many millions. A criterion of true wealth is also indifference to the opinions of others. Only by the yardstick of inner happiness can you tell how rich you truly are. If you are burdened with an excess of luxury, and held a prisoner to the expectations of others, you will pass life in a state of true misery.
Swami Kriyananda writing as J Donald Walters in hs new, soon to be published book “Do It Well”
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“ July 2. Depend on nothing outside yourself. Free yourself inwardly by letting no outer circumstance condition your happiness. If a desire arises in your mind, causing you to imagine something outward making you happy, offer up the desire to God in the absolute certainty, born of humanity’s long experience, that in Him alone lies true happiness.
Swami Kriyananda writing as J Donald Walters in hs new, soon to be published book “Do It Well”
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“ July 1. Encourage good ideas, no matter what their source.
Swami Kriyananda writing as J Donald Walters in hs new, soon to be published book “Do It Well”
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“ June 30. Accept criticism impartially. Remember, whatever is simply is; and what is not cannot be spoken into existence. Truth, in all things, is the final arbiter.
Swami Kriyananda writing as J Donald Walters in hs new, soon to be published book “Do It Well”
