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What you lose in the world will not be a loss to your soul.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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Paramahansa Yogananda
Age: 59 †
Born: 1893
Born: January 5
Died: 1952
Died: March 7
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Paramahamsa Yogananda
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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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It is a great mistake to regard a certain object as pleasurable in itself and to store the idea of it in the mind in hope of fulfilling a want by its actual presence in the future. If objects were pleasurable in themselves, then the same dress or food would always please everyone, which is not the case.
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Self-realization may be and sometimes is attained even by people who are struggling with sick and otherwise imperfect bodies but it cannot be attained unless one can concentrate and meditate uninterruptedly upon God.
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Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God that you do not have to pray that it come to you that God’s omnipresence is your omnipresence and that all that you need to do is improve your knowing.
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If religion means primarily God-consciousness, or the realization of God both within and without, and secondarily a body of beliefs, tenets and dogmas, then, strictly speaking, there is but one religion in the world, for there is but one God.
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In that power of self-control lies the seed of eternal freedom.
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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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Have the unflinching determination to move on your path unhampered by limiting thoughts of past errors.
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How you all will change the work after I am gone. If I came back a hundred years from now, I just wonder if I would even recognize it.
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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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Humans become angels on earth, not in heaven.
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Retire to the center of your being, which is calmness.
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Be careful what you choose to do consciously, for unless your will is very strong, that is what you may have to do repeatedly and compulsively through the habit-influencing power of the subconscious mind.
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Those who look at the surface of the sea must behold the birth and death of the waves, but those who seek the depths of the ocean behold one indivisible mass of water. Similarly, those who acknowledge life and death are tossed by sorrow, while those who live in the illimitable superconsciousness behold and feel the One Ineffable Bliss.
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