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The Guru's Grace (spiritual teacher) is both external and internal. From the outside, he pushes the mind inwards, and from the inside he pulls the mind towards the Self and helps it keep quiet. That is the grace. There is no difference between God, guru and Self. A guru's help is necessary and useful to start you on the inquiry, but you yourself must pursue it.

Go beyond everything. Don't collect anything. A king does not need to go shopping in his own kingdom. Remember you are the inner pure awareness only. All that arises are appearances in consciousness. Don't bother with all that. Rest only as awareness.

This is the secret.

#Mooji

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Your own mind is not on your side, on your back yes, but not on your side.

Don't wait for your mind to accept the Truth!

You must begin to know the difference between your mind and yourSelf.

#Mooji

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Do everything with a mind that lets go.

Don't accept praise or gain or anything else. If you let go a little you will have a little peace; if you let go a lot you will have a lot of peace; if you let go completely you will have complete peace.

#AjahnChah

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When I was a novice, I could not understand why, if the world is filled with suffering, the Buddha has such a beautiful smile. Why isn't he disturbed by all the suffering?

Later I discovered that the Buddha has enough understanding, calmness, and strength; that is why the suffering does not overwhelm him. He is able to smile to suffering because he knows how to take care of it and to help transform it.

We need to be aware of the suffering, but retain our clarity, calmness, and strength so we can help transform the situation. The ocean of tears cannot drown us if karuna is there.

That is why the Buddha's smile is possible.

#ThichNhatHanh

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Stopping is the basic Buddhist practice of meditation. You stop running. You stop struggling.

You allow yourself to rest, to heal, to calm.

#ThichNhatHanh

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As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color & fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.

#Buddha

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Empty yourself of everything.

Let the mind become still.

All things in the Universe rise and fall while the Self watches their return.

They grow and flourish and then return to the Source. Returning to the Source is stillness, which is the way of Nature.

#LaoTsu

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Most of the world is like a mental hospital. Some persons are sick with jealousy, others with anger, hatred, passion.

They are victims of their habits and emotions. But you can make your home a place of peace.

Autobiography of a Yogi

#ParamahansaYogananda

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Whatever you make up your mind to do, you can do. God is the sum total of everything, and His image is within you. He can do anything, and so can you, if you learn to identify yourself with His inexhaustible nature.

#PARAMAHANSAYOGANANDA

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You must exercise your will power. If you make up your mind and go forth like a flame, every obstacle in your path will be consumed.

#ParamahansaYogananda

Now is the time for you to make the effort to know God. In meditation, again and again throw the bombs of your deep yearning against the bulwark of silence, until its walls are broken down and God is revealed. Feel the love of God; then in every person you will see the face of the Father, the light of Love which is in all.

The Heavenly Father can be known as cosmic love, cosmic light, cosmic bliss.

He is also infinite beauty. When we look at a rose, we shouldn't analyse too much, but rather concentrate on its beauty.

This is the way to know God as beauty.

And God is poesy. It is another expression of His beauty. He is the Infinite Poem, and the Joy we feel when we hear inspiring poems. Poetry itself is

"a thing of beauty and a joy forever." If we love God, we love poetry.

To establish God's kingdom on earth, we must follow the path of wisdom, beauty, and love. We must cultivate wisdom, and learn through our wisdom to love the beauty of God in all souls and in all things.

#ParamahansaYogananda

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