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The purpose of the guru is not to weaken your will. It is to teach you secrets of developing your inner power, until you can stand unshaken amidst the crash of breaking worlds.

Paramahansa Yogananda

A good rule in life is to tell yourself simply, ‘What comes of itself, let it come.
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Flow Goodness Life Philosophy Simplicity
Forget the past, for it is gone from your domain! forget the future, for it is beyond your reach! control the present! Live supremely well now! This is the way of the wise.
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Beyond Control Domain Forget Live Past Present Wisdom Yourself
Read a little. Meditate more. Think of God all the time.
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God Meditation Reading Thinking Time
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
Change your life by changing your thoughts.
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Change Life Thinking Yourself
Untrained warriors are soon killed on the battlefield; so also persons untrained in the art of preserving their inner peace are quickly riddled by the bullets of worry and restlessness in active life.
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Active Battle Kill Life Person Training Warrior Yourself
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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Adventure Desire Fight Form Ideas Soul Yourself
A genuine smile distributes the cosmic current, Prana to every body cell.The happy man is less subject to disease, for happiness actually attracts into the body a greater supply of the Universal life energy.
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Attraction Distribution Happiness Smile Subject Universal
Stillness is the altar of spirit.
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One Liner Spirit Yourself
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
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
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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Kind Life Man Material Security Simplicity Time Yourself
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
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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Attraction Heart Live Thinking True Yourself
Have only love in your heart for others. The more you see the good in them, the more you will establish good in yourself.
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Establishment Goodness Heart Love Yourself
Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world.
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Change Inspirational Transformation World Yourself