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Paramahansa Yogananda
Spiritual Diary
An Inspirational Thought for Each Day

370 pages
published by Self Realization Fellowship
ISBN 0876120214

This collection of inspiring thoughts has been taken chiefly from the writings of Paramahansa Yogananda.

«To take even one facet of Truth each day and dwell upon it, and strive to live by it, has a miraculously transforming effect on one's inner and outer life... In this Spiritual Diary are inspiring thoughts to guide you each day of the year. If you apply them in all your endeavors, material or spiritual, your actions will be surcharged with divine power. Think truth, think good, think God. If your mind is filled with His light, there can be no darkness for you.»

- Sri Daya Mata, Preface

«Remember, in your will lies the almighty power of God. When a host of difficulties comes and you refuse to give up in site of all obstacles; when your mind becomes "set," then you will find God responding to you.»

- Paramahansa Yogananda, March 20

«First things must come first. When you awaken in the morning, meditate. If you don't, the whole world will crowd in to claim you, and you will forget God. At night, meditate before sleep claims you. I am so strongly established in the habit of meditation that even after I lie down to sleep at night, I find I am meditating. I can't sleep in the ordinary way. The habit of being with God comes first.»

- Paramahansa Yogananda, August 24

Last Updated Friday, January 15, 1999