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If you possess happiness you possess everything: to be happy is to be in tune with God.

Paramahansa Yogananda

The soul loves to meditate, for in contact with the Spirit lies its greatest joy. If, then you experience mental resistance during meditation, remember that reluctance to meditate comes from the ego; it doesn’t belong to the soul.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA

Greatness Love Meditation Soul Spirit Yourself
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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Attraction Karma Respond Yourself
Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
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Happiness Learning Yourself
A good rule in life is to tell yourself simply, ‘What comes of itself, let it come.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA

Flow Goodness Life Philosophy Simplicity
Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.
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Beautiful Care Future Live Moments Quiet Yourself
If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you.
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Feeling Happiness Hard Time Inspirational Sad World Yourself
The wave is the same as the ocean, though it is not the whole ocean. So each wave of creation is a part of the eternal Ocean of Spirit. The Ocean can exist without the waves, but the waves cannot exist without the Ocean.
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Existence Ocean Philosophy Thinking Wave
If you possess happiness you possess everything: to be happy is to be in tune with God.
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God Happiness Possession Yourself
As water by cooling and condensation becomes ice, so thought by condensation assumes physical form. Everything in the universe is thought in material form.
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Assumption Condensation Form Material Thinking Water
Most of the world is like a mental hospital. Some persons are sick with jealousy, others with anger, hatred, passion. They are victims of their habits and emotions. But you can make your home a place of peace.
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Habit Hate Hospital Mental Passion Peace Person Place Victim World
Truths are not truths to you unless you realize them within yourself. Without realization, they are just ideas. For spiritual perception, spiritual consciousness, lies not in vague theological ideas, but in the acquisition of Self-realization.
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Consciousness Ideas Philosophy Realization Spiritual Truth
When the mind is strong and the heart is pure, you are free.
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Freedom Heart Mindset Purity Strong Yourself
Whatever I do, I do with the greatest love that I have in me. Try this, and you will see that you do not become fatigued at all. Love is one of the greatest stimulants to the will. Under the influence of love the will can do almost anything.
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Greatness Influence Love See Willing Yourself
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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Deal Development Diamond Light Love Reflection Shine Sun Yourself
In that power of self-control lies the seed of eternal freedom.
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Control Forever Freedom Inspirational Power
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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Close Darkness Gate God Kingdom Peace Yourself