The greatest romance is with the Infinite.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDAThe soul’s first adventure is the fight between two ideas: the wish to return to earth in a human form, and the desire to feel the freedom of having no form.
More Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes
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A smooth life is not a victorious life.
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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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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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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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Change your life by changing your thoughts.
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The greatest romance is with the Infinite. You have no idea how beautiful life can be. When you suddenly find God everywhere, when He comes and talks to you and guides you, the romance of divine love has begun.
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Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror.
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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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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything.
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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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Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
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The soul loves to meditate, for in contact with the Spirit lies its greatest joy. If, then you experience mental resistance during meditation, remember that reluctance to meditate comes from the ego; it doesn’t belong to the soul.
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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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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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