Give us our daily bread: food, health, and prosperity for the body; efficiency for the mind; and, above all, Thy wisdom and love for our souls. Teach us to deliver ourselves, with Thy help, from the meshes of ignorance which we have woven through our own carelessness.

At last the cloud of silence within me, holding Thee remote, burst, and the rising waters of Thy Spirit broke the narrow boundaries of my soul, baptizing me in Thine expanding waters of infinity.

I feel Thy joy in all things! Make me a lighthouse of joy also, guiding storm-tossed vessels of life to safety on the shores of Thy joy.

Suddenly I beheld myself in rags. Seated on the hard stones of poverty I wept, and my teardrops fell on the unheeding, unrelenting stones of my present circumstances.

I do not want to lose myself. Thy tiny dewdrop craves only, by merging in Thee, to feel that I am one with all the other drops in Thy ocean.

I am aware that this turbulent dancing show is only a vast illusion. I am happy to have acted both tragic and comic parts. Still, Father, give me now and then a few days of respite from my task!

I have burnt my past, destroying every seed of evil destiny. I am the Eternal NOW, having torn to shreds my enclosing cocoon of ignorance with the sharp knife of free will.

I beheld Thy bliss-face emerge from the dark shadows of my ignorance, where it had been hidden for long aeons by my indifference. And, seeing Thy smiling joy, I know that my own happiness mirrored Thy blessed image.

I take this sacred vow: Never will I lower my love’s gaze below the eyebrow-horizon of my constant thoughts of Thee! Never will I turn my uplifted inner sight away from Thee!

No more will I remain moving through the sea of cosmic consciousness—night and day, years, decades, and how many incarnations!—so close, yet never able to contact Thy sea.

My lot is small, and my life’s season is short, yet now I would produce a mighty harvest. I will expand my kingdom of will power. To do so, I must conquer new states of consciousness, enlarge my achievements, and outgrow, in consciousness, every limiting horizon.

I bring Thee all the honey from the hive of my heart. All that was ever mine is now Thine alone.

Each human being is but one Flame, separate-seeming from all others.

The voice of Thy wisdom roams through the ether of space, seeking everywhere hearts that are tuned to ecstasy.

Guide Thou my understanding and powers, so that I may turn evil, dark minds into sparkling wisdom rays.

Teach us to feel that no duty is more important than our duty to Thee.

Father, I am swimming in the sea of my craving for Thee.

I was made for Thee alone. I was made for dropping flowers of devotion gently at Thy feet.

I pray that I may behold my love in others.

I pray only that my love for Thee never fade.

Thou light of my life—thou camest to spread wisdom’s glow
over the path of my soul.

Unknown I will walk by your side
And guard you with invisible arms.

Bless me, that with the humming
atoms I may time my song with Thine.

Tell me Thou didst love me always, but that I knew it not.

The breeze of Thy love wafts
through me.

Her sages taught me to find my Self
Buried beneath the ash heaps
Of incarnations and ignorance.

Thou hast taken unto Thyself many names, but I know Thou has one changeless name—Perennial Joy.

The sun shines high in the heavens: everything is fully awake. Awaken Thou me, likewise!

Paramhansa Yogananda wrote Whispers from Eternity to show us the attitudes of the soul that draw God’s response to prayers.

In the still lake of my soul, I love to behold Thine unruffled face
of stillness.