Autobiography Of A Yogi Quotes

Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Ocean, Inner Peace, Dying

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Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Simple, Calming, Uncomplicated

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Forget the past, for it is gone from your domain! forget the future, for it is beyond your reach! control the present! Live supremely well now! This is the way of the wise.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Wise, Past, Gone

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Read a little. Meditate more. Think of God all the time.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Thinking, Littles

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Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Life, Cherish Every Moment, Quiet Moments

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It is not your passing thoughts or brilliant ideas so much as your plain everyday habits that control your life....Live simply. Don’t get caught in the machine of the world— it is too exacting. By the time you get what you are seeking your nerves are gone, the heart is damaged, and the bones are aching. Resolve to develop your spiritual powers more earnestly from now on. Learn the art of right living. If you have joy you have everything,so learn to be glad and contented....Have happiness now.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Spiritual, Art, Ideas

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Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Attitude, Law Of Attraction, Responsible

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The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. . . Live each moment completely and the future will take care of itself. Fully enjoy the wonder and beauty of each moment.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Past, Worry, Secret

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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Happiness, Time, Congratulations

Paramahansa Yogananda (2011). “The Law of Success: Using the Power of Spirit to Create Health, Prosperity, and Happiness”, p.10, BookBaby

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Friendship, True Friend, Heart

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You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God's creative principle works in you.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Running, Spiritual, Courage

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Every tomorrow is determined by every today.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Today, Determined, Tomorrow

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God is simple, everything else is complex

Paramahansa Yogananda

Simple, Complexes

Paramahansa Yogananda (2016). “Autobiography of a Yogi”, p.58, Paramahansa Yogananda

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Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Relationship, Wall, Kindness

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You may control a mad elephant; You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger; Ride the lion and play with the cobra; By alchemy you may learn your livelihood; You may wander through the universe incognito; Make vassals of the gods; be ever youthful; You may walk in water and live in fire; But control of the mind is better and more difficult.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Fire, Play, Elephants

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Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Persistence, Guarantees That, Results

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You do not have to struggle to reach God, but you do have to struggle to tear away the self-created veil that hides him from you

Paramahansa Yogananda

Struggle, Self, Tears

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To work with God's happiness bubbling in the soul is to carry a portable paradise within you wherever you go.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Soul, Paradise, Within You

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If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Evil, Quality, Looks

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Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Self, Knowing, Soul

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Before embarking on important undertakings sit quietly calm your senses and thoughts and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the great creative power of Spirit.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Creative, Meditation, Important

Paramahansa Yogananda (2011). “The Law of Success: Using the Power of Spirit to Create Health, Prosperity, and Happiness”, p.19, BookBaby

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The secret of health for both mind and body is...live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Gautama Buddha

Being Happy, Health, Healing

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The deeper the Self-realization of a man, the more he influences the whole universe by his subtle spiritual vibrations, and the less he himself is affected by the phenomenal flux.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Spiritual, Men, Self

Paramahansa Yogananda (2016). “Autobiography of a Yogi: (Complete Edition)”, p.166, Yogoda Satsanga Society of India

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Making others happy, through kindness of speech and sincerity of right advice, is a sign of true greatness. To hurt another soul by sarcastic words, looks, or suggestions, is despicable.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Sarcastic, Hurt, Kindness

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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Fear, Yoga, Stay Calm

Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1977). “Self-realization”

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