The Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yoganandaby Parker on TwosFollow any simple diet which proves suited to ones constitutionBe comfortable with your purse. Extravagance will bring you discomfortA true yogi is able to pass into and maintain the super conscious state, regardless of multitudinous distractions never absent from this earthIt is your thoughts that make you feel alternately weak and strongYour health follows your subconscious expectationsThought is a forceWhatever your powerful mind believes very intensely instantly comes to passIn shallow men the fish of little thoughts cause much commotion. In oceanic minds the whales of inspiration make hardly a rufflePain and pleasure are transitory; endure all dualities with calmness, trying at the same time to remove yourself beyond their power. Imagination is the door through which disease as well as healing enters. Disbelieve in the reality of sickness even when you are ill; an unrecognized visitor will flee