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Change yourself and you have done your part in changing the world

Paramahansa Yogananda

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Paramahansa Yogananda
Age: 59 †
Born: 1893
Born: January 5
Died: 1952
Died: March 7
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When you exercise your will power you release the power of life energy - not when you merely wish passively to be able to obtain an objective.
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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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Those persons who have perceptive eyes enjoy beauty everywhere.
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It is a great mistake to regard a certain object as pleasurable in itself and to store the idea of it in the mind in hope of fulfilling a want by its actual presence in the future. If objects were pleasurable in themselves, then the same dress or food would always please everyone, which is not the case.
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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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Success is hastened or delayed by one's habits.
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The things you need in life are those that will help you to fulfill your dominant purpose. Things you may want but not need may lead you aside from that purpose. It is only by making everything serve your main objective that success is attained.
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In that power of self-control lies the seed of eternal freedom.
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Seek spiritual riches within. What you are is much greater than anyone or anything else you have ever yearned for.
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By the practice of meditation, you will find that you are carrying within your heart a portable paradise.
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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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Forget your dream-born mortal weakness. Wake up and know that you and God are one.
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Subtle astral colors... are hidden in everything around you. Could you but see, you would be amazed at their beauty.
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Consider no one a stranger. Learn to feel that everybody is akin to you.
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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.
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If you open the door to the magnetic power of friendship, souls of like vibrations will be attracted to you.
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He who has realized oneness with God possesses all knowledge contained in Him. Knowing the Lord as Beginning and End of all beings and worlds, a true Brahmin has knowledge of the hereafter and of the workings of nature on this plane of existence.
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No action is ever an isolated event. Always, it invites from the universe a reaction that corresponds exactly to the type and the force of energy behind the deed.
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The deeper the Self-realization of a man, the more he influences the whole universe by his subtle spiritual vibrations, and the less he himself is affected by the phenomenal flux.
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Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others.
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