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.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDASeclusion is the price of greatness.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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By the practice of meditation, you will find that you are carrying within your heart a portable paradise.
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Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace.
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It 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.
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As a broken microphone cannot broadcast a message, so a restless mind cannot transmit prayers to God
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No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit.
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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 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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Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.
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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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You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God’s creative principle works in you.
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Do not take life’s experiences too seriously. For in reality they are nothing but dream experiences. Play your part in life, but never forget that it is only a role.
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Thinkers do not accept the inevitable; they turn their efforts toward changing it.
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Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world.
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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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