No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit.
PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDASince you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them.
More Paramahansa Yogananda Quotes
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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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In the spiritual life one becomes just like a little child, without resentment, without attachment, full of life and joy.
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Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them.
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Divisions are imaginary lines drawn by small minds.
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Do your best and then relax. Let things go on in a natural way, rather than force them.
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He who conquers the mind, conquers the world.
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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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In that power of self-control lies the seed of eternal freedom.
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The rains of Life’s Blessings cannot gather on mountaintops of pride, but flow easily into valleys of humbleness.
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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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Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits. Obeying the ego leads to bondage; obeying the soul brings liberation.
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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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Many people excuse their own faults but judge other persons harshly. We should reverse this attitude by excusing others’ shortcomings and by harshly examining our own.
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Seclusion is the price of greatness.
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Play your part in life, but never forget it is only a role.
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