It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDAThe season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
More Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes
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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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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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Do your best and then relax. Let things go on in a natural way, rather than force them.
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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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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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When the mind is strong and the heart is pure, you are free.
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If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your destiny.
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I relax and cast aside all mental burdens, allowing God to express through me His perfect love, peace, and wisdom.
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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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People are running, running, but there is no place in the world to which they can flee to escape themselves. Ultimately, each one must face himself.
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Nothing is impossible unless you think it is.
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When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything.
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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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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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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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