Try also not to be with people who take your mind outward. Be with those people who remind you of your inner Self.
Spiritual Growth
Spiritual Growth
What Is True Friendship?
Friendship is a manifestation of God’s love. It is the purest of all love. The friendlier you become toward all, the more real friends you will have.
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Excerpts from: Swami Kriyananda As We Have Known Him
If Swamiji had told me I was behaving like an idiot, I would have been so embarrassed it would have taken me weeks to recover. But through humor, he knew he could reach me.
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The Gift of Gurubhais
I found this path twenty-five years ago and immediately felt a kinship with the disciples I met at Ananda Village and elsewhere. I give thanks every day for my gurubhais because I know I am not strong enough to fight the spiritual battle alone.
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Increase the Love
Love is the light that drives out all darkness in relationships between people. If you have any problem with another person, it’s because the love between you has diminished.
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Spiritual Healing: A Ten-Year Food Addiction
Spiritual healing worked for me when nothing else did. From my own experience, I know that strong willpower coupled with dynamic faith in the Guru can accomplish just about anything.
Clarity Magazine, Spiritual Growth
Change a Habit in a Day
We are not our habits. No one, in his true nature, is essentially angry or jealous or lustful. We allow these qualities to develop over the course of many lifetimes.
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You Too Can Memorize Yogananda’s Poem, Samadhi
One morning during meditation, thought came to me very strongly that I should memorize Yogananda’s poem Samadhi. My initial reaction was, “I could never do that!”
Clarity Magazine, Spiritual Growth
The Mouse Who Became a Tiger
Deep in the forest, near the holy city of Benares, India, there lived a great God-realized saint, who allowed no one to live near him except a little pet mouse.
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Letters of Encouragement
The modern mind—especially the modern American mind—thinks that bigger is better. Why should this be so? There is no rivalry in God.
