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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.

Paramahansa Yogananda

The greatest romance is with the Infinite. You have no idea how beautiful life can be. When you suddenly find God everywhere, when He comes and talks to you and guides you, the romance of divine love has begun.
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Beginning Divine God Greatness Guide Romance Sudden Talk
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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Consciousness Ideas Philosophy Realization Spiritual Truth
Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
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Happiness Learning Yourself
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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Control Delay Habit Life Mental Success Yourself
It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.
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Human Lying Material Poverty Spiritual Suffering
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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Best Failure Season Seed Success Time
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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Darkness Light Room Yourself
Most of the world is like a mental hospital. Some persons are sick with jealousy, others with anger, hatred, passion. They are victims of their habits and emotions. But you can make your home a place of peace.
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Habit Hate Hospital Mental Passion Peace Person Place Victim World
Seclusion is the price of greatness.
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Greatness One Liner Price
Before embarking on important undertakings sit quietly calm your senses and thoughts and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the great creative power of Spirit.
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Creativity Guide Important Meditation Power Quiet Thinking Yourself
He who conquers the mind, conquers the world.
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Conquer Himself Inspirational Mindset Power World
Those who are unconquered in spirit are the real successes in life. If you can so train or condition your mind that you are content regardless of what you have or do not have, and if you can stand the challenge of all your trials and remain calm-that is true happiness.
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Challenge Happiness Reality Spirit Stand Success True Yourself
In the spiritual life one becomes just like a little child, without resentment, without attachment, full of life and joy.
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Attachment Children Joy Life Spiritual
Those persons who have perceptive eyes enjoy beauty everywhere.
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Beautiful Enjoyment Perception Person
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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Divine Glory Meditation Realization Shine Yourself
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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Attraction Distribution Happiness Smile Subject Universal