Hi John,

What can we do to stay centered when the world around us is so filled with tumult?

Paramhansa Yogananda said that with deep meditation, “you will stand unshaken amidst pulverizing trials.”

This is my testimony: If you practice meditation every day deeply and consistently, you will find ever-existing, ever-conscious, ever-new joy within you. With practice it will stay with you in activity and in silence alike, even in sleep. It is a joy that will constantly guide you to right action in everything and will respond to your prayers.

This again is my testimony: Having reached that joy, you will find that other desires become small in comparison. Your consciousness will expand. You will stand unshaken amidst pulverizing trials. The whole world will not be able to lure you to forsake that bliss.

–Paramhansa Yogananda

With everything going on in the world right now, this is the perfect time to start or reinvigorate your meditation practice. 

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