Everybody needs to read every thing by Yogananda. Here’s a good place to start – http://yogananda.com.au/kriya.html

I am a series of small victories and large defeats, and I am amazed as any other that I have gotten from here to there. Sometimes you climb out in the morning and you think I’m not going to make it – but you laugh inside – remembering all the times that you’ve felt that way.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. Hope will always meet resistance, but it’s been a beautiful fight – still is

Don’t look to the sky for fireworks when you can see them light up in the eyes of all the people passing by

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; So I love you because I know no other way than this: where I does not exist, nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

Itself knows the sad truth of how we surrender our lives and deaths to simple ritual, useless craven ritual, and then slinking away from the face of glory, turning our dreams into dung, how we said no, no, no, no to the most beautiful YES ever uttered

I begin to realize how important it is to be an enthusiast in life. If you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it pure speed. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good – Roald Dahl