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.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDAIf you possess happiness you possess everything: to be happy is to be in tune with God.
More Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes
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Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
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Many people excuse their own faults but judge other persons harshly. We should reverse this attitude by excusing others’ shortcomings and by harshly examining our own.
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Have only love in your heart for others. The more you see the good in them, the more you will establish good in yourself.
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If you possess happiness you possess everything: to be happy is to be in tune with God.
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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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As water by cooling and condensation becomes ice, so thought by condensation assumes physical form. Everything in the universe is thought in material form.
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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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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.
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Change your life by changing your thoughts.
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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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A good rule in life is to tell yourself simply, ‘What comes of itself, let it come.
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Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them.
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Those persons who have perceptive eyes enjoy beauty everywhere.
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Through the portals of silence the healing sun of wisdom and peace will shine upon you.
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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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