Through every trial we grow. All suffering we experience has a meaning. Though it seems very cruel, it is like the fire that smelts the iron ore: the steel that emerges from that furnace is beautifully strong, useful for many purposes.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDAMany people excuse their own faults but judge other persons harshly. We should reverse this attitude by excusing others’ shortcomings and by harshly examining our own.
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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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Today I forgive all those who have ever offended me. I give my love to all thirsty hearts, both to those who love me and to those who do not love me.
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We are what we think we are. The habitual inclination of our thoughts determines our talents and abilities, and our personality. So whatever you want to be, start to develop that pattern now.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.
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Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
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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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Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them.
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Those persons who have perceptive eyes enjoy beauty everywhere.
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Making 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.
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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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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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Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.
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The greater the will, the greater the flow of energy.
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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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