Visualization is a powerful method for achieving material or spiritual success.
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Letters of Encouragement
When I first met Yogananda, I had many doubts that I determined to “put on a shelf” for the time being, since I was in no position to resolve them.
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The Fulfillment of Perfection
The company a person keeps has a strong influence on the images of happiness he forms in his own mind. If everyone he knows considers it the goal of life to own a large bank account, he will not easily dismiss that thought-form from his mind even if his own desire is to embrace a more expansive ideal.
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Bring God into Your Living Room*
It is easier, in a sense, to visualize God in the starry heavens than in our own homes. By contrast, our homes are often scenes of strife and rivalry.
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Why the Rich Man Became Poor and the Poor Man Became Rich
Mr. Sham often said: “Mr. Honest, look here, if you will forsake all religious and metaphysical nuttiness, I will give you a financial start and you will then attract riches and friends.”
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What Is Peace?
Peace is, eternally, the wing-beat of inner freedom.
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If God Is for Everyone, Then Why Isn’t Everyone for God?
Not everyone is for God primarily due to the power of desire. The path to freedom lies in gradually refining our desires, making them purer and more expansive.
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Take a Long-Term View of Your Meditation Practice
To meditate successfully one needs to be like the long-distance runner who accepts whatever terrain he encounters.
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Contacting God in Meditation
God-contact can be achieved through regular, intense, long-continued meditation. Steadily use your will power until the cosmic silence is broken and you receive His answer.
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How to Win the Battle against Materialism: Lessons from the Mahabharata
One of the most touching stories in the Mahabharata is when Karna, a great warrior fighting on the side of the Kauravas, discovers that he is really a Pandava prince.
