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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.

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
Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them.
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Alone Change Responsibility Thinking Yourself
Be careful what you choose to do consciously, for unless your will is very strong, that is what you may have to do repeatedly and compulsively through the habit-influencing power of the subconscious mind.
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Care Consciousness Influence Mindset Strong Willing Yourself
The wave is the same as the ocean, though it is not the whole ocean. So each wave of creation is a part of the eternal Ocean of Spirit. The Ocean can exist without the waves, but the waves cannot exist without the Ocean.
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Existence Ocean Philosophy Thinking Wave
The greatest romance is with the Infinite. You have no idea how beautiful life can be. When you suddenly find God everywhere, when He comes and talks to you and guides you, the romance of divine love has begun.
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Beginning Divine God Greatness Guide Romance Sudden Talk
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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Awake Flame Infinity Punishment Trial
Fearlessness means faith in God: faith in his protection, His justice, His wisdom, His mercy, His love, and His Omnipresence… To be fit for Self-realization man must be fearless.
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Faith Fear God Himself Justice Love Man Mercy Presence Protection Wisdom
I am a spark from the Infinite. I am not flesh and bones. I am light.
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Bone Flesh Light Myself
Whenever you want to produce something, do not depend upon the outside source: go deep and seek the Infinite Source.
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Depend Infinity Production Seek Source Yourself
The kingdom of God is just behind the darkness of closed eyes, and the first gate that opens to it is your peace.
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Close Darkness Gate God Kingdom Peace Yourself
The happiness of one’s own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one’s own happiness, the happiness of others.
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Alone Happiness Heart Oneself Satisfaction
We are what we think we are. The habitual inclination of our thoughts determines our talents and abilities, and our personality. So whatever you want to be, start to develop that pattern now.
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Ability Development Habit Pattern Personality Start Thinking Yourself
It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.
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Human Lying Material Poverty Spiritual Suffering
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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Experience Forget Life Play Reality Role Serious Yourself
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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Beautiful Experience Growth Purpose Strong Suffering Trial
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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Experience Material Proper Thinking Visualization Yourself