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Be careful what you choose to do consciously, for unless your will is very strong, that is what you may have to do repeatedly and compulsively through the habit-influencing power of the subconscious mind.

Paramahansa Yogananda

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 possess happiness you possess everything: to be happy is to be in tune with God.
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God Happiness Possession 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
A smooth life is not a victorious life.
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Life Smooth Victory Yourself
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.
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Break Power Purpose Weakness Willing World 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
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
Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
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Eyes Heart Myself Rich Smile Soul
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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Beautiful Evil Goodness Quality Thinking Yourself
Whenever you want to produce something, do not depend upon the outside source: go deep and seek the Infinite Source.
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Depend Infinity Production Seek Source 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
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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Seclusion is the price of greatness.
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If circumstances are bad and you have to bear them, do not make them a part of yourself.
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Bad Circumstance Yourself
Do not take life’s experiences too seriously. For in reality they are nothing but dream experiences. Play your part in life, but never forget that it is only a role.
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Experience Forget Life Play Reality Role Serious Yourself
You do not have to struggle to reach God, but you do have to struggle to tear away the self-created veil that hides him from you
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