This mini-blog is just to record short quotes of Yogananda and Kriyananda in a less formal manner than the
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“ Oct. 6. Not a thought you think originates with you. Paramhansa Yogananda, in Autobiography of a Yogi, wrote, “Thoughts are universally and not individually rooted.” Not even your thoughts are your own: They simply catch currents of consciousness that flow through the earth’s atmosphere—some of them through the universe. The universe we live in is a manifestation of consciousness. Therefore Yogananda said also, “I suffer when you have moods, for I see then that Satan has got a hold on you.” Think, when a negative outlook wells up within you, “I am possessed by a negative influence.” To rid yourself of that “possession,” chant to God, and raise your center of consciousness in the spine. Soon, more positive thoughts and feelings will start coming to you.
Swami Kriyananda writing as J Donald Walters in hs new, soon to be published book “Do It Well
