Do your best and then relax. Let things go on in a natural way, rather than force them.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDAIf 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.
More Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes
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The soul’s first adventure is the fight between two ideas: the wish to return to earth in a human form, and the desire to feel the freedom of having no form.
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Strengthen your mind and refuse to carry the burden of mental and moral weakness acquired in past years; burn them in the fires of your present divine resolutions and right activities. By this constructive attitude you will attain freedom.
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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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Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.
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The rains of Life’s Blessings cannot gather on mountaintops of pride, but flow easily into valleys of humbleness.
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By the practice of meditation, you will find that you are carrying within your heart a portable paradise.
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Thinkers do not accept the inevitable; they turn their efforts toward changing it.
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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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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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Love cannot be had for the asking; it comes only as a gift from the heart of another.
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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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Is a diamond less valuable because it is covered with mud? God sees the changeless beauty of our souls. He knows we are not our mistakes.
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In the spiritual life one becomes just like a little child, without resentment, without attachment, full of life and joy.
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The greater the will, the greater the flow of energy.
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A saint is a sinner who never gave up.
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