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To gaze with looks of wonderment,
And to serve all that lives, still or moving.
This is to know what love is.
He knows who lives it.

— Paramahansa Yogananda Songs of the Soul (1923)

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You are walking on the earth as in a dream; Our world is a dream within a dream.

Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept!

Autobiography of a Yogi (1946)

All that you need to do is improve your knowing.

In waking, eating, working, dreaming, sleeping,
Serving, meditating, chanting, divinely loving,
My soul constantly hums, unheard by any:
God, God, God!

Autobiography of a Yogi (1946)

Love is the song of the soul, singing to God.

Songs of the Soul (1923)

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