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People are so skillful in their ignorance!

Paramahansa Yogananda

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Paramahansa Yogananda
Age: 59 †
Born: 1893
Born: January 5
Died: 1952
Died: March 7
Autobiographer
Guru
Philosopher
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Yogi
Paramahamsa Yogananda
Skillful
Ignorance
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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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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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The purpose of the guru is not to weaken your will. It is to teach you secrets of developing your inner power, until you can stand unshaken amidst the crash of breaking worlds.
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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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Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept!
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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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From joy people are born for joy they live in joy they melt at death. Death is an ecstasy, for it removes the burden of the body and frees the soul of all pain springing from body identification. It is the cessation of pain and sorrow.
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You have come to earth to entertain and to be entertained.
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It doesn't matter if a cave has been in darkness for 10,000 years or half an hour, once you light a match it is illuminated.
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If circumstances are bad and you have to bear them, do not make them a part of yourself.
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As you find your soul-reservoir of peace, less and less controversy will be able to afflict your life.
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Have only love in your heart for others. The more you see the good in them, the more you will establish good in yourself.
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If religion means primarily God-consciousness, or the realization of God both within and without, and secondarily a body of beliefs, tenets and dogmas, then, strictly speaking, there is but one religion in the world, for there is but one God.
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Incredible amounts of energy are hidden in your brain enough in a gram of flesh to run the city of Chicago for 2 days. And you say you are tired?
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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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Success is hastened or delayed by one’s habits. It is not your passing inspirations or brilliant ideas so much as your everyday mental habits that control your life.
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Meditation is like giving a hug to our ourselves, getting in touch whith that awesome reality in us. While meditating we feel a deep sense of intimacy with God, a love that is inexplicable.
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The Bhagavad-Gita is where God Himself talks to His devotee Arjuna.
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Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others.
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Self-realization may be and sometimes is attained even by people who are struggling with sick and otherwise imperfect bodies but it cannot be attained unless one can concentrate and meditate uninterruptedly upon God.
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