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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.

Paramahansa Yogananda

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.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA

Greatness Influence Love See Willing Yourself
Forget the past, for it is gone from your domain! forget the future, for it is beyond your reach! control the present! Live supremely well now! This is the way of the wise.
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Beyond Control Domain Forget Live Past Present Wisdom Yourself
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
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Attraction Heart Live Thinking 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
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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Along Calm Command Easy Serene Yourself
Strengthen your mind and refuse to carry the burden of mental and moral weakness acquired in past years; burn them in the fires of your present divine resolutions and right activities. By this constructive attitude you will attain freedom.
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Activity Carry Freedom Mindset Refuse Resolution Strength
Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world.
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Change Inspirational Transformation World 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
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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Adventure Desire Fight Form Ideas Soul Yourself
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
Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.
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Bath Death Money Ocean Peace
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
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
A smooth life is not a victorious life.
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Life Smooth Victory Yourself
Change your life by changing your thoughts.
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Change Life Thinking 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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Experience Forget Life Play Reality Role Serious Yourself