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.
Tue
Dec
8
“ Dec. 8. Let others see you, if they will, as their enemy. Resolve, for your part, to be their friend. More than one person has said to me, “I don’t know why I hate you.” I know why: I am true to myself, not to their desires and expectations of me. But I always answer, “I know only that I am your friend, and will always wish you well.
Swami Kriyananda writing as J Donald Walters in hs new, soon to be published book “Do It Well”
“ Dec. 7. Don’t ask yourself, “How can I do this differently?” Don’t even ask, “How can I do it better?” until you’ve asked first, “What is the right thing to do, and the right way to go about doing it?
Swami Kriyananda writing as J Donald Walters in hs new, soon to be published book “Do It Well”
Sun
Dec
6
“ Dec. 6. Some conventions, certainly, must be changed. Racial discrimination in America, for example, is an abomination—a means of suppression, a cause of bigotry, and a fetter to ego in all who practice it. So also is the caste system in India, which in its origins was enlightened—when it was not hereditary, but pointed the way that leads to salvation. When the caste system became hereditary, however, it caused the same misfortunes as has racial discrimination in America. See all human beings as your own brothers and sisters: equals before God.
Swami Kriyananda writing as J Donald Walters in hs new, soon to be published book “Do It Well”
Sat
Dec
5
“ Dec. 5. Show respect for convention, but remember that many conventions were started by unconventional, or at least independent-minded, people. Why do people stand when their national anthem is being played? It must have started with one person; no one wanted to show disrespect, so everyone followed his example. Why do people stand for the “Hallelujah” chorus in Handel’s Messiah? Because King George of England did so first; everyone else had to stand, because he did. Most conventions have no intrinsic meaning. Usually, it would make only a foolish statement to rebel against them; they are what hold a society together. Follow convention to be sociable, but respect it only if your reason confirms their validity. Ignore conventions, however, if they are harmful or demeaning to others.
Swami Kriyananda writing as J Donald Walters in hs new, soon to be published book “Do It Well”
Thu
Dec
3
“ Dec. 4. Practice patience. It is the straight, smooth highway to success. Patience will keep you inwardly calm, not overreactive to difficulties, and able to adjust to, and handle sensibly, any difficulty you encounter.
Swami Kriyananda writing as J Donald Walters in hs new, soon to be published book “Do It Well”
“ Dec. 3. Do your best, then leave the consequences to themselves. Attachment to the results only diminishes one’s ability to work effectively in the present. But with non-attachment, even if you fail in one endeavor, you will be free to direct your energy anew, and ever yet anew, until success is achieved.
Swami Kriyananda writing as J Donald Walters in hs new, soon to be published book “Do It Well”
Tue
Dec
1
“ Dec. 2. Do nothing for applause. Act for the far more satisfying approval of your own conscience. Someone once asked me, “What has motivated you to do all the things you’ve done?” Conscience? yes, certainly. But conscience, in my case, in reaction to the great suffering I see in the world, born of people’s ignorance of who and what they really are: children of God.
Swami Kriyananda writing as J Donald Walters in hs new, soon to be published book “Do It Well”
“ Dec. 1. Expect success, but don’t let that expectation take the place of painstaking effort. People who brag about what they will accomplish overlook, all too often, the little steppingstones of detail by which one treads the way to success.
Swami Kriyananda writing as J Donald Walters in hs new, soon to be published book “Do It Well”
