By the practice of meditation, you will find that you are carrying within your heart a portable paradise.
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.
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If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your destiny.
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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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Beginning with the early dawn of each day, I will radiate joy to everyone I meet. I will be mental sunshine for all who cross my path. Before the unfailing light of my cheer, darkness will take flight.
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Love cannot be had for the asking; it comes only as a gift from the heart of another.
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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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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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Untrained warriors are soon killed on the battlefield; so also persons untrained in the art of preserving their inner peace are quickly riddled by the bullets of worry and restlessness in active life.
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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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Those persons who have perceptive eyes enjoy beauty everywhere.
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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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If circumstances are bad and you have to bear them, do not make them a part of yourself.
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The greater the will, the greater the flow of energy.
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Your trials did not come to punish you, but to awaken you – to make you realise that you are a part of Spirit and that just behind the sparks of your life is the Flame of Infinity.
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A saint is a sinner who never gave up.
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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.
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