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If you have a strong mind and plant in it a firm resolve, you can change your destiny.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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Paramahansa Yogananda
Age: 59 †
Born: 1893
Born: January 5
Died: 1952
Died: March 7
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Be afraid of nothing. Hating none, giving love to all, feeling the love of God, seeing His presence in everyone, and having but one desire - for His constant presence in the temple of your consciousness - that is the way to live in this world.
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A wish is a desire without energy
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Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that you do not have to pray that it come to you that God’s omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to do is improve your knowing.
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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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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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