Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

"Seeds of past karma cannot germinate if they are roasted in the fires of divine wisdom."

"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."

"The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery"

"The ills attributed to an anthropomorphic abstraction called "society" may be laid more realistically at the door of Everyman. Utopia must spring in the private bosom before it can flower into civic virtue, inner reforms leading to outer ones. A man who has reformed himself will reform thousands."

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

"You have come to earth to entertain and to be entertained."