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Do your best and then relax. Let things go on in a natural way, rather than force them.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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Paramahansa Yogananda
Age: 59 †
Born: 1893
Born: January 5
Died: 1952
Died: March 7
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The spine is the highway to the Infinite. Your own body is the temple of God. It is within your own self that God must be realized.
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Through Self-realization man becomes aware of true values as to his place in the divine plan and his relation to the past, present, and future of mankind.
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Forget the past, for it is gone from your domain! forget the future, for it is beyond your reach! control the present! Live supremely well now! This is the way of the wise.
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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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When you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
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You naturally love those who are dear to you, and you must learn to give that kind of love to the whole world.
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Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept!
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Death is not as terrible as you think. It comes to you as a healer. Sleep is nothing but a counterfeit death. What happens in death we can picture in sleep. All our sufferings vanish in sleep. When death comes, all our mortal tortures cease they cannot go beyond the portals of death.
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He who is persistent will realize God. So try your best to make meditation a regular experience in your life.
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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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Build your inner environment. Practice Silence! I remember the wonderful discipline of the Great Ones. When we used to talk and chatter, they would say: Go back into your inner castle. It was very hard to comprehend then, but now I understand the way of peace
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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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Behold thine immortal Self resurrected with Christ in the light of illumination, present in every soul, every flower, every atom!
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Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
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Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations.
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Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid it. Then divert your mind to some good habit and steadily cultivate it until it becomes a dependable part of you.
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Spirit is the vast stillness which is behind all created things.
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Know that this universe is nothing but a dream bluff of nature to test your consciousness of immortality.
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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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The greatest romance is with the Infinite.
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