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Realize that enough hidden strength lies within you to overcome all obstacles and temptations. Bring forth that indomitable power and energy.

Paramahansa Yogananda

By the practice of meditation, you will find that you are carrying within your heart a portable paradise.
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Carry Heart Meditation Paradise Practice Yourself
Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
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Happiness Learning Yourself
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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Attraction Karma Respond Yourself
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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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.
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A genuine smile distributes the cosmic current, Prana to every body cell.The happy man is less subject to disease, for happiness actually attracts into the body a greater supply of the Universal life energy.
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Play your part in life, but never forget it is only a role.
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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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Success is hastened or delayed by one’s habits. It is not your passing inspirations or brilliant ideas so much as your everyday mental habits that control your life.
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Control Delay Habit Life Mental Success Yourself
It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.
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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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Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace.
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The greatest romance is with the Infinite.
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Beginning with the early dawn of each day, I will radiate joy to everyone I meet. I will be mental sunshine for all who cross my path. Before the unfailing light of my cheer, darkness will take flight.
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Today I forgive all those who have ever offended me. I give my love to all thirsty hearts, both to those who love me and to those who do not love me.
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Read a little. Meditate more. Think of God all the time.
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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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Through the portals of silence the healing sun of wisdom and peace will shine upon you.
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Healing Peace Shine Silence Sun Wisdom Yourself
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
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Attraction Heart Live Thinking True Yourself
Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them.
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Alone Change Responsibility Thinking Yourself
As a broken microphone cannot broadcast a message, so a restless mind cannot transmit prayers to God
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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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Forget the past, for it is gone from your domain! forget the future, for it is beyond your reach! control the present! Live supremely well now! This is the way of the wise.
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The time will come when mankind will begin to get away from the consciousness of needing so many material things. More security and peace will be found in the simple life.
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Those persons who have perceptive eyes enjoy beauty everywhere.
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I am a spark from the Infinite. I am not flesh and bones. I am light.
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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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