The Complete Works of William Walker Atkinson (Unabridged) Quotes

“Intellect is cold - Spiritual Consciousness is warm and alive with high feeling.”
― William Walker Atkinson, The Complete Works of William Walker Atkinson (Unabridged): New Thought, Yogi Philosophy, and Occult Wisdom for Mind Power, Magnetism, and Spiritual Mastery

“The occultist knows that this thought-atmosphere of a village, town, city, or nation is the composite thought of those dwelling in it or who have previously dwelt there. Strangers”
― William Walker Atkinson, The Complete Works of William Walker Atkinson (Unabridged): New Thought, Yogi Philosophy, and Occult Wisdom for Mind Power, Magnetism, and Spiritual Mastery

“Man is a far more complete being than is generally imagined. He has not only a body and a soul, but he is a spirit possessing a soul, which soul has several vehicles for expression, these several vehicles being of different degrees of density, the body being the lowest form of expression. These different vehicles manifest upon different "planes," such as the "physical plane," the "astral plane," etc., all of which will be explained as we proceed.”
― William Walker Atkinson, The Complete Works of William Walker Atkinson (Unabridged): New Thought, Yogi Philosophy, and Occult Wisdom for Mind Power, Magnetism, and Spiritual Mastery

“I-will-live-for-my-best. I-seek-wisdom, self-knowledge, happiness-and-power-to-help-others. I-act-from-the-higher-self, therefore-only-the-best-can-come-to-me.”
― William Walker Atkinson, The Complete Works of William Walker Atkinson (Unabridged): New Thought, Yogi Philosophy, and Occult Wisdom for Mind Power, Magnetism, and Spiritual Mastery

“We should try to secure a true conception of what we really are so as not to over value the external furnishings”
― William Walker Atkinson, The Complete Works of William Walker Atkinson (Unabridged): New Thought, Yogi Philosophy, and Occult Wisdom for Mind Power, Magnetism, and Spiritual Mastery

“Most of our troubles are but imaginary, and it is the mental habit of so dreading them that really acts as a magnet in attracting those that really do come.”
― William Walker Atkinson, The Complete Works of William Walker Atkinson (Unabridged): New Thought, Yogi Philosophy, and Occult Wisdom for Mind Power, Magnetism, and Spiritual Mastery

“Do you know how much better appearance you would make if you would just learn to speak with your voice instead of trying to express what you say with your whole body?”
― William Walker Atkinson, The Complete Works of William Walker Atkinson (Unabridged): New Thought, Yogi Philosophy, and Occult Wisdom for Mind Power, Magnetism, and Spiritual Mastery

“He who does not rule himself is not a success.”
― William Walker Atkinson, The Complete Works of William Walker Atkinson (Unabridged): New Thought, Yogi Philosophy, and Occult Wisdom for Mind Power, Magnetism, and Spiritual Mastery

“In-silence-I-will-allow-my-higher-self-to-have-complete-control. I-will-be-true-to-my-higher-self. I-will-live-true-to-my-conception-of-what-is-right. I-realize-that-it-is-to-my-self-interest-to-live-up-to-my-best. I-demand-wisdom-so that-I-may-act-wisely-for-myself-and-others.”
― William Walker Atkinson, The Complete Works of William Walker Atkinson (Unabridged): New Thought, Yogi Philosophy, and Occult Wisdom for Mind Power, Magnetism, and Spiritual Mastery

“For, as stated before, when you learn to control the body, you are gaining control over the mind.”
― William Walker Atkinson, The Complete Works of William Walker Atkinson (Unabridged): New Thought, Yogi Philosophy, and Occult Wisdom for Mind Power, Magnetism, and Spiritual Mastery

“Truth is not truth to you until you have proven it in your own experience, and once so proven you cannot be robbed of it, nor can it be argued away from you.”
― William Walker Atkinson, The Complete Works of William Walker Atkinson (Unabridged): New Thought, Yogi Philosophy, and Occult Wisdom for Mind Power, Magnetism, and Spiritual Mastery

“Man is now using but the lower and inferior parts of his mind, and he has within his mental world great unexplored regions that far surpass anything of which the human mind has dreamed. In”
― William Walker Atkinson, The Complete Works of William Walker Atkinson (Unabridged): New Thought, Yogi Philosophy, and Occult Wisdom for Mind Power, Magnetism, and Spiritual Mastery

“Before man attempts to solve the secrets of the Universe without, he should master the Universe within—the Kingdom of the Self. When”
― William Walker Atkinson, The Complete Works of William Walker Atkinson (Unabridged): New Thought, Yogi Philosophy, and Occult Wisdom for Mind Power, Magnetism, and Spiritual Mastery

“When THAT is known, all is known.”
― William Walker Atkinson, The Complete Works of William Walker Atkinson (Unabridged): New Thought, Yogi Philosophy, and Occult Wisdom for Mind Power, Magnetism, and Spiritual Mastery

“It is a duty of each developed man to train his body to the highest degree of perfection in order that it may be used to advantage. The”
― William Walker Atkinson, The Complete Works of William Walker Atkinson (Unabridged): New Thought, Yogi Philosophy, and Occult Wisdom for Mind Power, Magnetism, and Spiritual Mastery

“The main principle to remember is that by rhythmic breathing and controlled thought you are enabled to absorb a considerable amount of prana, and are also able to pass it into the body of another person, stimulating weakened parts and organs and imparting health and driving out diseased conditions. You”
― William Walker Atkinson, The Complete Works of William Walker Atkinson (Unabridged): New Thought, Yogi Philosophy, and Occult Wisdom for Mind Power, Magnetism, and Spiritual Mastery

“The Yogi is a most patient and persevering man, and his great attainments are due largely to the possession of these qualities.”
― William Walker Atkinson, The Complete Works of William Walker Atkinson (Unabridged): New Thought, Yogi Philosophy, and Occult Wisdom for Mind Power, Magnetism, and Spiritual Mastery

“Yogi science teaches that this Solar Plexus is really a most important part of the Nervous System, and that it is a form of brain, playing one of the principal parts in the human economy. Western”
― William Walker Atkinson, The Complete Works of William Walker Atkinson (Unabridged): New Thought, Yogi Philosophy, and Occult Wisdom for Mind Power, Magnetism, and Spiritual Mastery

“When it is remembered that the greater portion of prana acquired by man comes to him from the air inhaled, the importance of proper breathing is readily understood.”
― William Walker Atkinson, The Complete Works of William Walker Atkinson (Unabridged): New Thought, Yogi Philosophy, and Occult Wisdom for Mind Power, Magnetism, and Spiritual Mastery

“In ordinary breathing we absorb and extract a normal supply of prana, but by controlled and regulated breathing (generally known as Yogi breathing) we are enabled to extract a greater supply, which is stored away in the brain and nerve centers, to be used when necessary. We”
― William Walker Atkinson, The Complete Works of William Walker Atkinson (Unabridged): New Thought, Yogi Philosophy, and Occult Wisdom for Mind Power, Magnetism, and Spiritual Mastery

“Prana is found in its freest state in the atmospheric air, which when fresh is fairly charged with it, and we draw it to us more easily from the air than from any other source.”
― William Walker Atkinson, The Complete Works of William Walker Atkinson (Unabridged): New Thought, Yogi Philosophy, and Occult Wisdom for Mind Power, Magnetism, and Spiritual Mastery

“Prana is merely a form of energy used by the Ego in its material manifestation. When the Ego leaves the body, the prana, being no longer under its control, responds only to the orders of the individual atoms, or groups of atoms, forming the body, and as the body disintegrates and is resolved to its original elements, each atom takes with it sufficient prana to enable it to form new combinations, the unused prana returning to the great universal storehouse from which it came. With the Ego in control, cohesion exists and the atoms are held together by the Will of the Ego.”
― William Walker Atkinson, The Complete Works of William Walker Atkinson (Unabridged): New Thought, Yogi Philosophy, and Occult Wisdom for Mind Power, Magnetism, and Spiritual Mastery

“Man's only physical salvation is to "get back to Nature.”
― William Walker Atkinson, The Complete Works of William Walker Atkinson (Unabridged): New Thought, Yogi Philosophy, and Occult Wisdom for Mind Power, Magnetism, and Spiritual Mastery

“Good breathers are not apt to "take cold," and they generally have plenty of good warm blood which enables them to resist the changes in the outer temperature.”
― William Walker Atkinson, The Complete Works of William Walker Atkinson (Unabridged): New Thought, Yogi Philosophy, and Occult Wisdom for Mind Power, Magnetism, and Spiritual Mastery

“Eminent authorities have stated that one generation of correct breathers would regenerate the race, and disease would be so rare as to be looked upon as a curiosity. Whether”
― William Walker Atkinson, The Complete Works of William Walker Atkinson (Unabridged): New Thought, Yogi Philosophy, and Occult Wisdom for Mind Power, Magnetism, and Spiritual Mastery

“The man who mixes whiskey with his blood is more foolish than a man would be if he mixed water with gasoline in his car.”
― William Walker Atkinson, The Complete Works of William Walker Atkinson (Unabridged): New Thought, Yogi Philosophy, and Occult Wisdom for Mind Power, Magnetism, and Spiritual Mastery