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“Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself......”
― Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

“Why be elated by material profit?” Father replied. “The one who pursues a goal of evenmindedness is neither jubilant with gain nor depressed by loss. He knows that man arrives penniless in this world, and departs without a single rupee.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

“Man's conscious state is an awareness of body and breath. His subconscious state, active in sleep, is associated with his mental, and temporary, separation from body and breath. His superconscious state is a freedom from the delusion that "existence" depends on body and breath. God lives without breath; the soul made in his image becomes conscious of itself, for the first time, only during the breathless state.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

“The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man’s slavery.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

“Dharma (cosmic law) aims at the happiness of all creatures.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

“Softer than the flower, where kindness is concerned; stronger than the thunder, where principles are at stake.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

“Some people try to be tall by cutting off the heads of others!”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

“Moral: Look fear in the face and it will cease to trouble you. “Another”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi: (With Pictures)

“Truth is for earnest seekers, not for those of idle curiosity. It is easy to believe when one sees; there is nothing then to deny. Supersensual truth is deserved and discovered by those who overcome their natural materialistic skepticism.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi: (With Pictures)

“have found that life persists in the midst of destruction. Therefore, there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under that law would well-ordered society be intelligible and life worth living. If that is the law of life, we must work it out in daily existence. Wherever there are wars, wherever we are confronted with an opponent, conquer by love. I have found that the certain law of love has answered in my own life as the law of destruction has never done.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, The Autobiography of a Yogi

“Always remember that you belong to no one, and no one belongs to you. Reflect that some day you will suddenly have to leave everything in this world-so make the acquaintanceship of God”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi: (With Pictures)

“Look fear in the face and it will cease to trouble you.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, The Autobiography of a Yogi

“It is often forgotten that He who has surrounded us with this ever-evolving mystery of creation has also implanted in us the desire to question and understand.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

“Be comfortable within your purse," he often said. "Extravagance will buy you discomfort.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography Of A Yogi

“Kriya Yoga is more than a meditation technique; it is also a way of life, and requires acceptance by the initiate of certain spiritual disciplines and injunctions.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

“If you don’t invite God to be your summer Guest, He won’t come in the winter of your life.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

“Seeds of past karma cannot germinate if they are roasted in the fires of divine wisdom.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

“Softer than the flower, where kindness is concerned; stronger than the thunder, where principles are at stake.” There”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi: (With Pictures)

“The one who pursues a goal of evenmindedness is neither jubilant with gain nor depressed by loss.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

“Do not do what you want, and then you may do what you like.”
― Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi