Autobiography Of A Yogi Quotes & Sayings

When I find that I am more conscious, it's because I'm in tune with a higher reality. When I'm less conscious, it's because I've cut off that entunement to some extent. Maybe through drinking, through anger, through whatever. And I realized then that God has to be an infinite consciousness, and that I had to be an expression of that consciousness. And that the goal of life then must be to become more and more in tune with that consciousness. And I decided to give my life to God. And around that time, to make a long story short, I found Autobiography of a Yogi. — Goswami Kriyananda

Be classy. Anything but trashy. — Coco Chanel

Nothing is easier than saying words. Nothing is harder than living them day after day. — Arthur Gordon Webster

Note: Some aspirants indulge in severe austerities and arduous practices, mastering several techniques and incidentally attaining extraordinary supernatural powers as well. All these are to be shunned as they do not lead to ultimate peace and joy. On the other hand, the path of Kala Jnana described here is a direct path to mukti. — Ramana Maharshi

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

Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda, which was Steve Jobs's favorite book. 9. — Vishen Lakhiani

Being aloof, gruff, or stern never got anyone anywhere. Who wants to be treated like that? Certainly not you. And surely not the people you meet. — Wayne D. Dosick

I take much pleasure in being alone
but there is also a strange warm grace in not being alone. — Charles Bukowski

I keep stacks of Autobiography of a Yogi around the house, and I give it out constantly to people. When people need 'regrooving,' I say read this, because it cuts to the heart of every religion. — George Harrison

Plus, when you get in tough situations, like the bases loaded and nobody out, you never give in. — Dwight Gooden

I did my undergraduate work at the University of California when it was still affordable. But tuition keeps on rising. — Joseph DeRisi

The first time the word worship appears in the King James Version of the Old Testament, it appears with appalling import. 'Abide ye here,' Abraham tells his servant, while 'I and the lad go yonder and worship.' The terrible offering of his son's life is what the Bible's first instance of 'worship' portends. In the New Testament, the word worship first appears again in conjunction with a costly offering. It is used in reference to the wise men, who 'worshipped' the Christ child by 'open[ing] their treasure' and 'present[ing] unto him gifts.' Worship, then, is about what we are prepared to relinquish--what we give up at personal cost. — Terryl L. Givens

It's gotta be any parent's worst nightmare when they lose their child. — Ozzy Osbourne

In [Yogananda's] celebrated Autobiography of a Yogi, he offers a stunning account of the 'cosmic consciousness' reached on the upper levels of yogic practice, and numerous interesting perspectives on human nature from the yogic and Vedantic points of view. — Robert S Ellwood

I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything. — Greta Scacchi

Autobiography of a Yogi, a book that he would return to several — Brent Schlender

Autobiography of a Yogi is justifiably celebrated as one of the most entertaining and enlightening spiritual books ever written. — Tom Butler-Bowdon