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When you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

Paramahansa Yogananda

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Paramahansa Yogananda
Age: 59 †
Born: 1893
Born: January 5
Died: 1952
Died: March 7
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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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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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Wise guidance never violates people's Free Will. A superior who demands obedience of his subordinates should show respect for their capacity to understand, and also for their Innate Right to their own Free Will.
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Never do anything that taints your mind. Wrong actions cause negative or evil mental vibrations that are reflected in your whole appearance and personality. Engage in those actions and thoughts that nurture the good qualities you want to have.
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Sincerity is a soul quality that God has given to every human being, but not all express it.
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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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Divisions are imaginary lines drawn by small minds.
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Nothing is impossible unless you think it is.
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Fear was given to man as a cautionary device to spare him pain it is not mean to be cultivated and abused.
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Keep puffing on the bubble until it breaks its confining walls and becomes the sea of joy.
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Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept!
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Every night in sleep God takes away all your troubles to show you that you are not a mortal being you are spirit.
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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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If you possess happiness you possess everything: to be happy is to be in tune with God.
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Find god - he isn't hiding from you, you're hiding from him.
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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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An artist doesn't really create anything - he just rearranges what is already there.
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Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits. Obeying the ego leads to bondage obeying the soul brings liberation.
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The body is only a garment. How many times you have changed your clothing in this life, yet because of this you would not say that you have changed. Similarly, when you give up this bodily dress at death you do not change. You are just the same, an immortal soul, a child of God.
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Self-realization means to know truth through yourself, and not through others. By seeking God first, through Self-realization, all things-strength, power, prosperity, wisdom, health, and immortality-will be added unto you.
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