It doesn’t matter if a cave has been in darkness for 10,000 years or half an hour, once you light a match it is illuminated.
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
More Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes
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The greater the will, the greater the flow of energy.
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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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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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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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Truth is not afraid of questions.
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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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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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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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Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them.
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In that power of self-control lies the seed of eternal freedom.
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Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.
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Change your life by changing your thoughts.
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No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit.
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When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything.
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Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits. Obeying the ego leads to bondage; obeying the soul brings liberation.
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