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When you learn to get along with yourself, you will know how to get along with everybody.

Paramahansa Yogananda

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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Break Power Purpose Weakness Willing World 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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As a broken microphone cannot broadcast a message, so a restless mind cannot transmit prayers to God
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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 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.
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Feeling Happiness Hard Time Inspirational Sad World Yourself
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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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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By the practice of meditation, you will find that you are carrying within your heart a portable paradise.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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When the mind is strong and the heart is pure, you are free.
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A good rule in life is to tell yourself simply, ‘What comes of itself, let it come.
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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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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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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.
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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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