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In meditation...the power of God begins to reflect in the clear waters of your consciousness.

Paramahansa Yogananda

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Paramahansa Yogananda
Age: 59 †
Born: 1893
Born: January 5
Died: 1952
Died: March 7
Autobiographer
Guru
Philosopher
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Yogi
Paramahamsa Yogananda
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Strengthen your mind and refuse to carry the burden of mental and moral weakness acquired in past years burn them in the fires of your present divine resolutions and right activities. By this constructive attitude you will attain freedom.
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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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I relax and cast aside all mental burdens, allowing God to express through me His perfect love, peace, and wisdom.
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I don't want people to think that they can attain realization simply by listening to others or by reading books. They must practice what they read and hear.
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He is the wisest who seeks God. He is the most successful who has found God.
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Stillness is the altar of spirit.
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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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The entire universe is God's cosmic motion picture, and that individuals are merely actors in the divine play who change roles through reincarnation mankind's deep suffering is rooted in identifying too closely with one's current role, rather than with the movie's director, or God.
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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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When you came into this world you cried, whereas everyone else rejoiced. During your lifetime, work and serve in such a way that when it is time for you to leave this world, you will smile at parting while the world cries for you. Hold this thought and you will always remember to consider others above yourself.
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Evil spreads with the wind truth is capable of spreading even against it.
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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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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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Births and deaths are inevitable for man only during the state of ignorance in which he thinks he is the body and cannot exist without it. Only the man who will not seek the awakening of wisdom must suffer the nightmares and delusive dreams of births and deaths and the fanciful miseries and limitations attending them. (gt)
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An artist doesn't really create anything - he just rearranges what is already there.
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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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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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If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you.
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Forget your dream-born mortal weakness. Wake up and know that you and God are one.
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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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