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.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDAIf you are in a dark room, don’t beat at the darkness with a stick, but rather try to turn on the light
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Divisions are imaginary lines drawn by small minds.
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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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Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror.
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Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them.
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As a broken microphone cannot broadcast a message, so a restless mind cannot transmit prayers to God
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Through the portals of silence the healing sun of wisdom and peace will shine upon you.
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It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.
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If you are in a dark room, don’t beat at the darkness with a stick, but rather try to turn on the light
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Whenever you want to produce something, do not depend upon the outside source: go deep and seek the Infinite Source.
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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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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.
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A saint is a sinner who never gave up.
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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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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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Love cannot be had for the asking; it comes only as a gift from the heart of another.
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