If you are in a dark room, don’t beat at the darkness with a stick, but rather try to turn on the light
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDAIf circumstances are bad and you have to bear them, do not make them a part of yourself.
More Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes
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Success is hastened or delayed by one’s habits. It is not your passing inspirations or brilliant ideas so much as your everyday mental habits that control your life.
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So long as we believe in our heart of hearts that our capacity is limited and we grow anxious and unhappy, we are lacking in faith. One who truly trusts in God has no right to be anxious about anything.
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When you meditate the glory of the Divine shines forth. You realize then that all along there was something tremendous within you and you did not know it.
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When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything.
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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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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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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 greater the will, the greater the flow of energy.
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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
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The greatest romance is with the Infinite.
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Fearlessness means faith in God: faith in his protection, His justice, His wisdom, His mercy, His love, and His Omnipresence… To be fit for Self-realization man must be fearless.
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It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.
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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.
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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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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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