
Becoming God's Friend: Understanding Your Growth from Servant to Friend

Greater than all riches is true friendship. If you can be a true friend to people, you will find God. If you sincerely love people, you can know them; just as when you look through a clear glass, you can see what is in the glass. But your perception of people is unclear unless you love God, and unless you love others with the love of God.
Paramahansa Yogananda • The Divine Romance: Collected Talks and Essays on Realizing God in Daily Life – Volume 2
Use your time for God. If you find souls who will share that goal, then you can drink God together from the chalice of divine friendship. The highest duty God has given you is to develop His consciousness in yourself and to help true friends to do the same. So long as life sweetly sings with God, it will bring happiness to you and to others. Friend
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