Week 9 · eastern

Paramahansa Yogananda

In 1920, a young Indian monk sailed to America with almost no money and a mission to teach the West about yoga. His name was Paramahansa Yogananda, and his book Autobiography of a Yogi became one of the most influential spiritual texts of the twentieth century. Steve Jobs read it every year. George Harrison kept copies to give away. It's the kind of book people press into your hands and say "just read it."

“"Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself." He said that as a man who crossed an ocean alone to teach in a country he'd never visited. The quietness he described wasn't passivity. It was the calm of someone who had already decided to show up completely.”