One's whole life is an obstacle course. The more obstacles you overcome, the bigger the prize. If you avoid the obstacles, then there is no prize. Without those obstacles, you would never discover your capabilities. So instead of cursing the obstacles on your path, or the people who placed them there, try to find ways that will help you face them and overcome them. And when you do, a great joy will arise within you and you will bless the obstacles instead of cursing them. This quote from Overcoming Obstacles captures the flavor of total positive thinking with which Swami Satchidananda teaches...

Subtitled Jewels From the Teachings of Swami Satchidananda, this booklet collects hundreds of this great yoga master's seminal teachings in pithy aphorisms in his own words like You are happiness personified and Renounce the selfishness and you will be in Bliss. Each of these gems is capable of guiding a lifetime. The book is organized into twenty-eight topics including happiness and fun, faith, love, mind, spiritual practice, meditation, mantra, marriage/relationships, prayer, renunciation, divine will, emotions, willpower, beauty and art, pranayama, yoga of wisdom, guru, body and health,...