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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.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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Paramahansa Yogananda
Age: 59 †
Born: 1893
Born: January 5
Died: 1952
Died: March 7
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Retire to the center of your being, which is calmness.
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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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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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Consider no one a stranger. Learn to feel that everybody is akin to you.
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Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.
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An artist doesn't really create anything - he just rearranges what is already there.
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Do your best and then relax. Let things go on in a natural way, rather than force them.
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Through the portals of silence the healing sun of wisdom and peace will shine upon you.
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Spirit vibrated into matter hence, both Spirit and matter exist. Matter, however, does not exist in the way that it appears to us. It exists as we see it owing to the delusive force of maya, which makes the indivisible Spirit seem finite and divisible to all appearances. Matter has existence in the same delusive way as does a mirage in the desert.
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Those who are socially inclined will find a new power to help humanity through the lessons of books written by noble and gifted people.
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Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept!
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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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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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You don't know what is going to come to you in this world you have to go on living and worrying. Those who die are pitying us they are blessing us. Why should you grieve for them?
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To me there is no difference between one person and another I behold all as soul-reflection s of the one God. I can't think of anyone as a stranger, for I know that we are all part of the One Spirit.
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When you yearn for God with intensity, He will come to you.
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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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Fearlessness means faith in God: faith in his protection, His justice, His wisdom, His mercy, His love, and His Omnipresence... To be fit for Self-realization man must be fearless.
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In the state of love, no matter what you do, it's going to be good.
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Faithfulness in the performance of small duties gives us strength to adhere to difficult determinations that life will someday force us to make.
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