Paramhansa Yogananda: "Your success in life depends not only upon you

 

Paramhansa Yogananda: "Your success in life depends not only upon your natural ability; it depends also upon your determination to grasp the opportunities presented to you. Opportunities in life come by creation, not by chance. They are created by you, either now or in the recent or distant past. Since you have earned them, use them to the best advantage.⁠

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Your thoughts will inevitably bring you either to failure or to success—according to which thought is the strongest. Therefore, you must thoroughly believe in your own plans, use your talents to carry them out, and be receptive so that God can work through you.⁠

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You are always demonstrating success or failure, according to the kind of thoughts you habitually entertain. If your trend of thought is ordinarily negative, an occasional positive thought is not enough to change the vibration to one of success.⁠

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Hope is the eternal light on the dark pathway through which the soul must travel for incarnations in order to reach God. Human beings hope and try for a while, but if they fail a dozen times, they cease to hope and become despondent.⁠

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To kill hope and become despondent is to put on an animal mask of limitation and to hide your divine identity of almightiness. Instead, always hope for the highest and the best, for, as a child of God, nothing is too good for you. Hope is born from the intuitive knowing of the soul that eventually we will remember the forgotten image of God within us."⁠

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—Excerpted from: How to Awaken Your True Potential by Paramhansa Yogananda, linked in bio!