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Paramahansa Yogananda Inspirational Quotes (208)

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Play your part in life, but never forget it is only a role.
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As God talked with Arjuna, so will He talk with you. As He lifted up the spirit and consciousness of Arjuna, so will He uplift you. As he granted Arjuna supreme spiritual vision, so will He confer enlightenment on you.
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Mind is the creator of everything. You should therefore guide it to create only good. If you cling to a certain thought with dynamic will power, it finally assumes a tangible outward form. When you are able to employ your will always for constructive purposes, you become the controller of your destiny.
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The sun shines equally on diamond and charcoal, but the former has developed qualities that enable it to reflect the sunlight brilliantly, while the latter is unable to reflect the sunlight. Emulate the diamond in your dealings with people. Brightly reflect the light of God's love.
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You cannot make steel until you have made the iron white-hot in fire. It is not meant for harm. Trouble and disease have a lesson for us. Our painful experiences are not meant to destroy us, but to burn out our dross, to hurry us back Home. No one is more anxious for our release than God.
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What you are is much greater than anything or anyone else you have ever yearned for. God is manifest in you in a way that He is not manifest in any other human being. Your face is unlike anyone else's, your soul is unlike anyone else's, you are sufficient unto yourself for within your soul lies the greatest treasure of all - God.
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Humans become angels on earth, not in heaven.
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One may have many teachers, but only one guru, who remains as one's guru even in many different lives, until the disciple reaches the final goal of emancipation in God. You must remember this, once that relationship is formed.
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All Nature will commune with you when you are in tune with God. Realization of this truth will make you a master of your destiny.
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Never do anything that taints your mind. Wrong actions cause negative or evil mental vibrations that are reflected in your whole appearance and personality. Engage in those actions and thoughts that nurture the good qualities you want to have.
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Every tomorrow is determined by every today.
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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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Never neglect what you can do for yourself in the form of another.
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Evil spreads with the wind truth is capable of spreading even against it.
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Consider no one a stranger. Learn to feel that everybody is akin to you.
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Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others.
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Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations.
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I don't want people to think that they can attain realization simply by listening to others or by reading books. They must practice what they read and hear.
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God made us angels of energy, encased in solids - currents of life dazzling through a material bulb of flesh.
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With the opening of the New Year, all the closed portals of limitations will be thrown open and I shall move through them to vaster fields, where my worthwhile dreams of life will be fulfilled.
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Behold thine immortal Self resurrected with Christ in the light of illumination, present in every soul, every flower, every atom!
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Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept!
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Forget your dream-born mortal weakness. Wake up and know that you and God are one.
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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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