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Paramahansa Yogananda
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Paramahansa Yogananda
Age: 59 †
Born: 1893
Born: January 5
Died: 1952
Died: March 7
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Just as oil is present in every part of the olive, so love permeates every part of creation.
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Beginning with the early dawn of each day, I will radiate joy to everyone I meet. I will be mental sunshine for all who cross my path. Before the unfailing light of my cheer, darkness will take flight.
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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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Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution.
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The Divine has loved me as mother, as father, and as friend, behind all friends. I searched for that one Friend behind all friends, that one lover whom I now see glimmering in all your faces. And that friend never fails me.
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The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery
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Play your part in life, but never forget it is only a role.
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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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When you worry, there is static coming through your mind radio. God's song is the song of calmness. Nervousness is the static calmness is the voice of God speaking to you through the radio of your soul.
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God is love. His plan for creation can only be rooted in love. Does not that simple thought, rather than erudite reasoning, offer solace to the human heart?
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Whatever you want others to be, first be that yourself. Then, you will find others responding in like manner to you.
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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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Have the unflinching determination to move on your path unhampered by limiting thoughts of past errors.
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It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.
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Great healers, people of divine realization, do not cure by chance but by exact knowledge.
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Love cannot be had for the asking it comes only as a gift from the heart of another
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All Nature will commune with you when you are in tune with God. Realization of this truth will make you a master of your destiny.
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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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Words saturated with sincerity, conviction, faith, and intuition are like highly explosive vibration bombs, which, when set off, shatter the rocks of difficulties and create the change desired.
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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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