• “Live each present moment completely and the future will take care of itself.

    Fully enjoy the wonder and beauty of each instant.”      -Paramahansa Yogananda

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  • “Your real nature is calmness.  You have put on a mask of restlessness. . . .

    You are not that mask; you are pure, calm Spirit.”     -Paramahansa Yogananda

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  • “It is time you remember who you are: the blessed soul, a reflection of Spirit.”

    -Paramahansa Yogananda

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  • “God’s presence is so close; it is just as though somebody is playing hide-and-seek with you. . . .

    Behind the leaves, behind the wind, behind the warm rays of the sun, He is hiding, but He is there.”

    -Paramahansa Yogananda

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  • “If you could feel even a particle of divine love, so great would be your joy…

    so overpowering… you could not contain it.”      -Paramahansa Yogananda

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The Shaftsbury Hollow Retreat is composed of members and friends of Self-Realization Fellowship, a worldwide non-profit spiritual organization founded in 1920 by Paramahansa Yogananda. Read more

Self-Realization Fellowship

Through its worldwide service and teachings, SRF seeks to awaken greater understanding of the harmony underlying all religions, and fuller expression of the love that unites all people when they realize their oneness in God.

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Meditation

"The more you are silent the more happiness you will find. What joy awaits discovery in the silence behind the portals of your mind, no human tongue can tell. But you must convince yourself; you must meditate and create that environment. Those who deeply meditate feel a wonderful inner quiet." - Paramahansa Yogananda

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"Group meditation is a castle that protects the new spiritual aspirant as well as the veteran meditator. Meditating together increases the degree of self-realization of each member of the group by the law of invisible vibratory exchange of group magnetism." - Paramahansa Yogananda

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