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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

I relax and cast aside all mental burdens, allowing God to express through me His perfect love, peace, and wisdom.
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Burden Expression Himself Perfection Wisdom
A saint is a sinner who never gave up.
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Give Up Religious Sin Transformation
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
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
Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
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Happiness Learning Yourself
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
Divisions are imaginary lines drawn by small minds.
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Division Imagination Mindset Small
When you learn to get along with yourself, you will know how to get along with everybody.
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Along Company Learning People Yourself
People are running, running, but there is no place in the world to which they can flee to escape themselves. Ultimately, each one must face himself.
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Escape Face Himself People Run
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
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.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA

Greatness Influence Love See Willing 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
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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Along Calm Command Easy Serene Yourself
Your trials did not come to punish you, but to awaken you – to make you realise that you are a part of Spirit and that just behind the sparks of your life is the Flame of Infinity.
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Awake Flame Infinity Punishment Trial
Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.
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Bath Death Money Ocean Peace
Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world.
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Change Inspirational Transformation World Yourself