"The things you need in life are those that will help you to fulfill your dominant purpose. Things you may want but not need may lead you aside from that purpose. It is only by making everything serve your main objective that success is attained."
Spiritual Teacher, Author
Paramahansa Yogananda was a spiritual teacher and author known for introducing the teachings of Kriya Yoga to the West through his book 'Autobiography of a Yogi.'
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"The things you need in life are those that will help you to fulfill your dominant purpose. Things you may want but not need may lead you aside from that purpose. It is only by making everything serve your main objective that success is attained."
"You don't know what is going to come to you in this world; you have to go on living and worrying. Those who die are pitying us; they are blessing us. Why should you grieve for them?"
"We do not always see the things that are nearest to us. We pass by riches that lie close at hand and chase after rainbows."
"Discerning placement of a comma does not atone for a spiritual coma."
"Forget your dream-born mortal weakness. Wake up and know that you and God are one."
"Seek spiritual riches within. What you are is much greater than anyone or anything else you have ever yearned for."
"How you all will change the work after I am gone. If I came back a hundred years from now, I just wonder if I would even recognize it."
"Death is only an experience through which you are meant to learn a great lesson: you cannot die."
"Music that is saturated with soul force is the real universal music, understandable by all hearts."
"When you exercise your will power you release the power of life energy - not when you merely wish passively to be able to obtain an objective."
"Trust in God and destroy fear, which paralyzes all efforts to succeed and attracts the very thing you fear."