I don’t want people to think that they can attain realization simply by listening to others or by reading books. They must practice what they read and hear.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDABe kind to others, so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself.
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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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Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
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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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In the state of love, no matter what you do, it’s going to be good.
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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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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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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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Through the portals of silence the healing sun of wisdom and peace will shine upon you.
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Play your part in life, but never forget it is only a role.
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It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.
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Many people excuse their own faults but judge other persons harshly. We should reverse this attitude by excusing others’ shortcomings and by harshly examining our own.
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The greater the will, the greater the flow of energy.
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In that power of self-control lies the seed of eternal freedom.
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Through every trial we grow. All suffering we experience has a meaning. Though it seems very cruel, it is like the fire that smelts the iron ore: the steel that emerges from that furnace is beautifully strong, useful for many purposes.
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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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