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If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.
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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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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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By the practice of meditation, you will find that you are carrying within your heart a portable paradise.
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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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If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your destiny.
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Whatever I do, I do with the greatest love that I have in me. Try this, and you will see that you do not become fatigued at all. Love is one of the greatest stimulants to the will. Under the influence of love the will can do almost anything.
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The time will come when mankind will begin to get away from the consciousness of needing so many material things. More security and peace will be found in the simple life.
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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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Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.
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When you learn to get along with yourself, you will know how to get along with everybody.
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The purpose of the guru is not to weaken your will. It is to teach you secrets of developing your inner power, until you can stand unshaken amidst the crash of breaking worlds.
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The soul’s first adventure is the fight between two ideas: the wish to return to earth in a human form, and the desire to feel the freedom of having no form.
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Have only love in your heart for others. The more you see the good in them, the more you will establish good in yourself.
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If you are in a dark room, don’t beat at the darkness with a stick, but rather try to turn on the light
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I relax and cast aside all mental burdens, allowing God to express through me His perfect love, peace, and wisdom.
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