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Goswami Kriyananda was an Indian author known for his profound insights into the spiritual life and his extensive literary works. His writings covered a range of topics including spiritual philosophy, personal growth, and spiritual cultivation, which have been well-received by readers.

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“Happiness is like a plant: It must be watered daily with giving thoughts and actions.”

Giving Action Happiness Plant Thoughts And Actions

Author:Goswami Kriyananda

“A deliberate attitude that you have to hold in your mind as one of the basic rules of yoga is to remain even-minded and cheerful.”

Mind Happiness Attitude Yoga Cheerful Deliberate

Author:Goswami Kriyananda

“If it (the good circumstances) changes will you be able to keep onto your happiness just as much? Because if not then your happiness is really built on sand.”

Ifs Able Happiness Circumstances Built Sand

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“Feel that you are happy without any cause for happiness.”

Feels Happiness Causes

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“Take whatever cause for outward happiness you might have and take it within yourself, so that, if the sun should go out, you will not be any less happy; if the birds stop singing you will not be any less happy.”

Ifs Should Might Happiness Causes Sun Singing Bird

Author:Goswami Kriyananda

“Whatever you experience outwardly, take it within yourself and say 'I'm happy because I'm happy. I'm happy because God is in my heart.'”

Heart Happiness My Heart

Author:Goswami Kriyananda

“Master said if you want to be happy no one in the world can take happiness from you; if you want to be unhappy, no one in the world can make you happy. So choose to be happy.”

Ifs World Want Said Happiness Masters Unhappy Make You Happy Want To Be Happy Choose To Be Happy

Author:Goswami Kriyananda

“I've've seen some people like this that no matter what happens they've got something cheerful to feel about it. It's not always easy, but if we do it as a deliberate sward of battle rather then thinking 'Well, I'm not really feeling that way and therefore I shouldn't say that I am'. No! Make yourself that way!”

People Ifs Thinking Way Feels Wells Matter Feelings Happens Happiness Easy Battle No Matter What Cheerful Deliberate

Author:Goswami Kriyananda

“It's not insincere to say you're happy if your determined to make it true and live in that consciousness.”

Ifs Happiness Consciousness Determined Insincere

Author:Goswami Kriyananda

“Happiness is a question of attitude, not a question of what's happening out there.”

Happiness Attitude Happenings

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“Even-minded and cheerful. When things go bad, you'll find that the same kind of attitude comes to you naturally.”

Kind Happiness Attitude Cheerful

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“We've got to be long distance runners on the spiritual path. We want to run as fast as we can, but at the same time realize that if God isn't at the end of that 100 yards, we don't fall flat of exhaustion. We've got to have whatever rhythm it takes to be able to go on for incarnations until we find that state of perfection we've been seeking.”

“Be thou a true yogi. A yogi who understands that everything he's looking for is really inside himself. Learn to live more in the Self.”

Self Happiness Yogi

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“Learn to live more in the Self. Come down a little bit to eat and talk as necessary.”

Littles Self Happiness Bits Little Bit

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“Become more and more centered in the Self. To live more and more in the thought that God is here in your consciousness.”

Self Happiness Consciousness

Author:Goswami Kriyananda

“Live more quietly. Live more seeking God's presence in your own heart.”

Heart Happiness Seeking Seeking God God's Presence

Author:Goswami Kriyananda

“The real sign of His blessings is if you can have more and more happiness inside. Learn always to be happy; to be happy with the happiness of God. Even- minded and cheerful. This is the fastest route to divine bliss.”

Ifs Real Happiness Divine Blessing Bliss Routes Cheerful

Author:Goswami Kriyananda

“Understand that there is no relationship between your inner happiness and your inner joy and the outer things that you experience and behold in the world, that it all begins with you, the world is a mirror to your own Self, when you can look at things and feel joy not in the things but in yourself.”

World Feels Looks Self Happiness Joy Mirrors Inner Happiness

Author:Goswami Kriyananda

“That's what life is for, to find that joy in yourself.”

Happiness Life Is Joy

Author:Goswami Kriyananda

“Happiness is self-generated. It depends on one's attitude of mind. The basis of happiness, is the simple fact that the deepest reality of our own nature is ever-existing, ever-conscious, ever-new joy.”

Mind Self Facts Reality Happiness Joy Simple Attitude Depends Conscious Bases

Author:Goswami Kriyananda

“The "kingdom of heaven" to which he referred was the state of God-consciousness, not the beautiful astral heavens that most people visualize, where virtuous souls go after death.”

People Soul States Beautiful Heaven Consciousness Kingdoms Virtuous After Death Kingdom Of Heaven

Author:Goswami Kriyananda

“See what is worth learning, and what is worth doing. Thus, you gain an understanding of what is vital, and what is not vital. You need to learn what is important and what is not important. You need to understand what will move you upwards and onwards, and what will hinder you from traveling the higher path.”

Needs Important Moving Understanding Path Higher Gains Hinder

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“Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.”

Way Happiness Understanding Situation Principles Mere Inner Peace Stakes Precious Things

Author:Goswami Kriyananda

“The secret of friendship is expressing kindness with your eyes and through the tone of your voice, not only with words.”

Eye Voice Secret Kindness Tone

Author:Goswami Kriyananda

“Attachment is the state of ignorance or forgetfulness, and thus clinging to a memory of enjoyment”

States Memories Ignorance Enjoyment Attachment Forgetfulness Clinging

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About the Author

Born: May 19, 1926
Died: April 21, 2013
Known for: Author
Quotes: 75

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