The Autobiography of a Yogi ("Popular Life Stories")

by Paramahansa Yogananda

“Mind is the wielder of muscles. The force of a hammer blow depends on the energy applied; the power expressed by a man’s bodily instrument depends on his aggressive will and courage.

Is it by any skill of yours that food digests in your stomach?

Moral: Look fear in the face and it will cease to trouble you.

could show you that whatever your powerful mind believes very intensely would instantly come to pass.’

“A girl must have proved very troublesome to his peace of mind in his early life,” my guru answered causticly. “Otherwise he would have denounced, not the woman, but some imperfection in his own self-control.”