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

Paramahansa Yogananda

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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Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
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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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As water by cooling and condensation becomes ice, so thought by condensation assumes physical form. Everything in the universe is thought in material form.
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Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.
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Whenever you want to produce something, do not depend upon the outside source: go deep and seek the Infinite Source.
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In the spiritual life one becomes just like a little child, without resentment, without attachment, full of life and joy.
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Thinkers do not accept the inevitable; they turn their efforts toward changing it.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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I relax and cast aside all mental burdens, allowing God to express through me His perfect love, peace, and wisdom.
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Having lots of money while not having inner peace is like dying of thirst while bathing in the ocean.
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