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Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Making others happy, through kindness of speech and sincerity of right advice, is a sign of true greatness. To hurt another soul by sarcastic words, looks, or suggestions, is despicable.
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Despicable Greatness Happiness Kindness
The greatest romance is with the Infinite. You have no idea how beautiful life can be. When you suddenly find God everywhere, when He comes and talks to you and guides you, the romance of divine love has begun.
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Beginning Divine God Greatness Guide Romance Sudden Talk
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
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
Strengthen your mind and refuse to carry the burden of mental and moral weakness acquired in past years; burn them in the fires of your present divine resolutions and right activities. By this constructive attitude you will attain freedom.
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Activity Carry Freedom Mindset Refuse Resolution Strength
Fearlessness means faith in God: faith in his protection, His justice, His wisdom, His mercy, His love, and His Omnipresence… To be fit for Self-realization man must be fearless.
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Faith Fear God Himself Justice Love Man Mercy Presence Protection Wisdom
The happiness of one’s own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one’s own happiness, the happiness of others.
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Alone Happiness Heart Oneself Satisfaction
Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace.
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Honesty Hypocrisy Peace World Yourself
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.
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Greatness Love Meditation Soul Spirit Yourself
A smooth life is not a victorious life.
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Life Smooth Victory Yourself
Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits. Obeying the ego leads to bondage; obeying the soul brings liberation.
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Act Desire Ego Freedom Guidance Leadership Liberty Power Soul
Proper visualization by the exercise of concentration and willpower enables us to materialize thoughts, not only as dreams or visions in the mental realm, but also as experiences in the material realm.
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Experience Material Proper Thinking Visualization Yourself
It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.
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Human Lying Material Poverty Spiritual Suffering
In that power of self-control lies the seed of eternal freedom.
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Control Forever Freedom Inspirational Power
As a broken microphone cannot broadcast a message, so a restless mind cannot transmit prayers to God
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Broken God Message Mindset Prayer Yourself
It doesn’t matter if a cave has been in darkness for 10,000 years or half an hour, once you light a match it is illuminated.
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