Realize that enough hidden strength lies within you to overcome all obstacles and temptations. Bring forth that indomitable power and energy.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDARealize that enough hidden strength lies within you to overcome all obstacles and temptations. Bring forth that indomitable power and energy.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDAMaking others happy, through kindness of speech and sincerity of right advice, is a sign of true greatness. To hurt another soul by sarcastic words, looks, or suggestions, is despicable.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDAMeet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDAIt 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.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDANo one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDATruths 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.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDABe kind to others, so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDAForget 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.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDAWhen the mind is strong and the heart is pure, you are free.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDAA smooth life is not a victorious life.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDAHaving lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDAProper visualization by the exercise of concentration and willpower enables us to materialize thoughts, not only as dreams or visions in the mental realm, but also as experiences in the material realm.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDAWhatever you want others to be, first be that yourself. Then, you will find others responding in like manner to you.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDASeclusion is the price of greatness.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDAThe 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.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDAChange yourself and you have done your part in changing the world.
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