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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.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Realize that enough hidden strength lies within you to overcome all obstacles and temptations. Bring forth that indomitable power and energy.
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Enough Hide Obstacle Power Strength Temptation
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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Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
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Happiness Learning Yourself
The wave is the same as the ocean, though it is not the whole ocean. So each wave of creation is a part of the eternal Ocean of Spirit. The Ocean can exist without the waves, but the waves cannot exist without the Ocean.
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Existence Ocean Philosophy Thinking Wave
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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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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Many 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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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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Despicable Greatness Happiness Kindness
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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Be kind to others, so that you may learn the secret art of being kind to yourself.
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Kindness Learning Secret Yourself
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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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.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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When the mind is strong and the heart is pure, you are free.
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Be careful what you choose to do consciously, for unless your will is very strong, that is what you may have to do repeatedly and compulsively through the habit-influencing power of the subconscious mind.
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Stillness is the altar of spirit.
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