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Paramahansa Yogananda
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Paramahansa Yogananda
Age: 59 †
Born: 1893
Born: January 5
Died: 1952
Died: March 7
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Paramahamsa Yogananda
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I am calmly active, actively calm. I am the prince of peace sitting on a throne of poise, directing the kingdom of my activity.
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No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit
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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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Truths are more than imagination they are real. Yet their origin is a thought in the mind of God.
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Never count your faults. Just see that your love for God is deeply sincere. For God doesn't mind your imperfections: He minds your indifference.
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God is simple, everything else is complex
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The seeker of God is the real lover of vidya, unchangeable truth all else is avidya, relative knowledge.
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Be careful what you choose to do consciously, for unless your will is very strong, that is what you may have to do repeatedly and compulsively through the habit-influencing power of the subconscious mind.
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As God is omnipresent in the cosmos but is undisturbed by its variety, so man, who as a soul is individualized Spirit, must learn to participate in this cosmic drama with a perfectly poised and equilibrated mind.
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Music that is saturated with soul force is the real universal music, understandable by all hearts.
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It is better to meditate a little bit with depth than to mediate long with the mind running here and there. If you do not make an effort to control the mind it will go on doing as it pleases, no matter how long you sit to meditate.
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Fear was given to man as a cautionary device to spare him pain it is not mean to be cultivated and abused.
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If you possess happiness you possess everything: to be happy is to be in tune with God.
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Whatever you want others to be, first be that yourself. Then, you will find others responding in like manner to you.
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Intuition is soul guidance, appearing naturally in man during those instants when his mind is calm.
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Work for god, love god alone, and be wise with god. When an ordinary man puts the necessary rime and enthusiasm into meditation and prayer, he becomes a divine man.
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Find god - he isn't hiding from you, you're hiding from him.
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To commune daily with God in deep meditation, and to carry His love and guidance with you into all your dutiful activities, is the way that leads to permanent peace and happiness.
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You do not have to struggle to reach God, but you do have to struggle to tear away the self-created veil that hides him from you
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He is the wisest who seeks God. He is the most successful who has found God.
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