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If circumstances are bad and you have to bear them, do not make them a part of yourself.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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Paramahansa Yogananda
Age: 59 †
Born: 1893
Born: January 5
Died: 1952
Died: March 7
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As God talked with Arjuna, so will He talk with you. As He lifted up the spirit and consciousness of Arjuna, so will He uplift you. As he granted Arjuna supreme spiritual vision, so will He confer enlightenment on you.
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If God calls me tomorrow I will go without a moment's turning back.
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The spine is the highway to the Infinite. Your own body is the temple of God. It is within your own self that God must be realized.
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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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Consider no one a stranger. Learn to feel that everybody is akin to you.
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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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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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The soul loves to meditate, for in contact with the Spirit lies its greatest joy. If, then you experience mental resistance during meditation, remember that reluctance to meditate comes from the ego it doesn't belong to the soul.
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Divisions are imaginary lines drawn by small minds.
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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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