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Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully.

Ramakrishna

When one has love for God, one doesn’t feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.
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Children Compassion Friend Physical Relatives Retain
The fool who repeats again and again: “I am bound, I am bound,” remains in bondage. He who repeats day and night: “I am a sinner, I am a sinner,” becomes a sinner indeed.
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Fool Guilt Night
So it is true that God dwells even in the most wicked, but it is not meet that we should associate with the wicked.
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Associate Dwells God Meet Most True Wicked
Take the case of the infinite ocean. There is no limit to its water. Suppose a pot is immersed in it: there is water both inside and outside the pot.
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Case Immersed Infinite Inside Long Ocean Two Water
The same old sins take possession of him again. He is hardly out of the waters before they fall upon him.
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Again Fall Hardly Old Possession Sin Water
Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God.
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Creed Different God Path Reach
The breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward.
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Blowing Boat Breeze Forward Grace Moving Sail
There are three kinds of love; unselfish, mutual, and selfish. The unselfish love is of the highest kind; The lover only minds the welfare of the beloved and does not care for his own sufferings. .
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Eye Highest Kind Love Lover Mind Mutual Selfish Unselfish
If you are trying to thread a needle, you will not succeed if the thread has even a slight fiber sticking out.
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Fiber Needle Slight Sticking Succeed Thread Trying
Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? Because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
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Day God Heaven Ignorance Say Therefore
Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.
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Bagful Common Grain Little Man Religion Speak Wise
Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.
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Allow Doe Evil God Plot Thicken World
You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion… different temperaments… differences in the capacity to comprehend.
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Differences Different Digestion Taste Temperament
All troubles come to an end when the ego dies
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Die Ego End Over Trouble
So is the light Divine. It falls equally and impartially on all hearts, but the pure and pious hearts of holy men receive and reflect that light well.
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Divine Equally Heart Impartially Light Man Receive
So long as the heart of man is directed towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness.
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Directed God Herat Long Lost Man Ocean Towards Worldliness

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