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The kingdom of God is just behind the darkness of closed eyes, and the first gate that opens to it is your peace.

Paramahansa Yogananda

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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In the spiritual life one becomes just like a little child, without resentment, without attachment, full of life and joy.
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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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Read a little. Meditate more. Think of God all the time.
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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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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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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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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 permit your thoughts to dwell on evil you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty.
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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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If you possess happiness you possess everything: to be happy is to be in tune with God.
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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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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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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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The rains of Life’s Blessings cannot gather on mountaintops of pride, but flow easily into valleys of humbleness.
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Divisions are imaginary lines drawn by small minds.
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