Spiritual Attunement through Meditation
Oct 30, 2026 · 22 min · 6 segments
Spiritual Attunement Through Meditation. Episode #148: Happiness. Today I’ll be sharing information from Paramahansa Yogananda's wonderful 1988 book, Where There Is Light, Insight and Inspiration for…
If you have given up hope of ever being happy, cheer up.
Never lose hope.
Your soul, being a reflection of the ever-joyous spirit, is, in essence, happiness itself.
There is nothing that can stop you.
Happiness depends to some extent upon external conditions, but chiefly upon mental attitudes.
Essentially, conditions are neither good nor bad.
They are always neutral, seeming to either be depressing or encouraging because of the sad or bright attitude of the mind of the individual concerned with them.
Change your thoughts if you wish to change your circumstances.
Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them.
You will want to change them when you realize that each thought creates according to its own nature.
Remember that the law works at all times and that you are always demonstrating according to the kind of thoughts you habitually entertain.
Therefore, start now to think only those thoughts that will bring you health and happiness.
Man needs to understand that his own intelligence controls the atoms of his body.
He should not live in a closed chamber of mental narrowness.
Breathe in the fresh air of vital thoughts and views of other people.
Expel poisonous thoughts of discouragement, discontentment, hopelessness.
Drink vitality and receive mental nourishment from materially and spiritually progressive minds.
Feast unstintingly on the creative thinking within yourself and others.
Take long mental walks on the paths of self-confidence.
Exercise with the instruments of judgment, introspection and initiative.
The mind, being the brain, feeling and perception of all living cells can keep the human body alert or depressed.
The mind is the king, and all its cellular subjects behave exactly according to the mood of their royal master.
Just as we concern ourselves with the nutritive value of our daily food menus, so should we consider the nutritive potency of the psychological menus that we daily serve the mind.
Constantly you affirm sorrow, therefore it exists.
If you have given up hope of ever being happy, cheer up.
Never lose hope.
Your soul, being a reflection of the ever-joyous spirit, is, in essence, happiness itself.
There is nothing that can stop you.
Happiness depends to some extent upon external conditions, but chiefly upon mental attitudes.
Essentially, conditions are neither good nor bad.
They are always neutral, seeming to either be depressing or encouraging because of the sad or bright attitude of the mind of the individual concerned with them.
Change your thoughts if you wish to change your circumstances.
Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them.
You will want to change them when you realize that each thought creates according to its own nature.
Remember that the law works at all times and that you are always demonstrating according to the kind of thoughts you habitually entertain.
Therefore, start now to think only those thoughts that will bring you health and happiness.
Man needs to understand that his own intelligence controls the atoms of his body.
He should not live in a closed chamber of mental narrowness.
Breathe in the fresh air of vital thoughts and views of other people.
Expel poisonous thoughts of discouragement, discontentment, hopelessness.
Drink vitality and receive mental nourishment from materially and spiritually progressive minds.
Feast unstintingly on the creative thinking within yourself and others.
Take long mental walks on the paths of self-confidence.
Exercise with the instruments of judgment, introspection and initiative.
The mind, being the brain, feeling and perception of all living cells can keep the human body alert or depressed.
The mind is the king, and all its cellular subjects behave exactly according to the mood of their royal master.
Just as we concern ourselves with the nutritive value of our daily food menus, so should we consider the nutritive potency of the psychological menus that we daily serve the mind.
Constantly you affirm sorrow, therefore it exists.
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