Whatever you want others to be, first be that yourself. Then, you will find others responding in like manner to you.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDABe 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.
More Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes
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Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
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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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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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A good rule in life is to tell yourself simply, ‘What comes of itself, let it come.
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Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world.
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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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Every tomorrow is determined by every today.
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Nothing is impossible unless you think it is.
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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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If you are in a dark room, don’t beat at the darkness with a stick, but rather try to turn on the light
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If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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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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If you possess happiness you possess everything: to be happy is to be in tune with God.
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When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything.
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Play your part in life, but never forget it is only a role.
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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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The rains of Life’s Blessings cannot gather on mountaintops of pride, but flow easily into valleys of humbleness.
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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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Divisions are imaginary lines drawn by small minds.
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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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You do not have to struggle to reach God, but you do have to struggle to tear away the self-created veil that hides him from you
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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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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Read a little. Meditate more. Think of God all the time.
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Change your life by changing your thoughts.
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