If circumstances are bad and you have to bear them, do not make them a part of yourself.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDAThe season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
More Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes
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The time will come when mankind will begin to get away from the consciousness of needing so many material things. More security and peace will be found in the simple life.
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When you learn to get along with yourself, you will know how to get along with everybody.
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Whatever you want others to be, first be that yourself. Then, you will find others responding in like manner to you.
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When you meditate the glory of the Divine shines forth. You realize then that all along there was something tremendous within you and you did not know it.
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A good rule in life is to tell yourself simply, ‘What comes of itself, let it come.
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When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything.
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The sun shines equally on diamond and charcoal, but the former has developed qualities that enable it to reflect the sunlight brilliantly, while the latter is unable to reflect the sunlight. Emulate the diamond in your dealings with people. Brightly reflect the light of God’s love.
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The soul’s first adventure is the fight between two ideas: the wish to return to earth in a human form, and the desire to feel the freedom of having no form.
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If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty.
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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
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It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.
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A saint is a sinner who never gave up.
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Read a little. Meditate more. Think of God all the time.
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I am a spark from the Infinite. I am not flesh and bones. I am light.
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The kingdom of God is just behind the darkness of closed eyes, and the first gate that opens to it is your peace.
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