When the mind is strong and the heart is pure, you are free.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDAStrengthen 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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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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Untrained warriors are soon killed on the battlefield; so also persons untrained in the art of preserving their inner peace are quickly riddled by the bullets of worry and restlessness in active life.
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Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
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Before embarking on important undertakings sit quietly calm your senses and thoughts and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the great creative power of Spirit.
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The sun shines equally on diamond and charcoal, but the former has developed qualities that enable it to reflect the sunlight brilliantly, while the latter is unable to reflect the sunlight. Emulate the diamond in your dealings with people. Brightly reflect the light of God’s love.
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When you learn to get along with yourself, you will know how to get along with everybody.
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A smooth life is not a victorious life.
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Truth is not afraid of questions.
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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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Through the portals of silence the healing sun of wisdom and peace will shine upon you.
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Play your part in life, but never forget it is only a role.
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Those who are unconquered in spirit are the real successes in life. If you can so train or condition your mind that you are content regardless of what you have or do not have, and if you can stand the challenge of all your trials and remain calm-that is true happiness.
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Stillness is the altar of spirit.
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Read a little. Meditate more. Think of God all the time.
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When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything.
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Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.
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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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Love cannot be had for the asking; it comes only as a gift from the heart of another.
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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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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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Whenever you want to produce something, do not depend upon the outside source: go deep and seek the Infinite Source.
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Change your life by changing your thoughts.
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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 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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It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.
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