The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.
RAMAKRISHNASunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully.
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He whose mind dwells on God. But this is not possible as long as one has egotism and vanity.
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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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Allow others also equal liberty to stand by their own faith and opinion.
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Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant.
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Have love for everyone, no one is other than you.
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Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.
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Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning,
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Different people call on [God] by different names: some as Allah, some as God, and others as Krishna, Siva, and Brahman. It is like the water in a lake.
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Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.
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Those whose spiritual awareness has been awakened never make a false move. They don’t have to avoid evil.
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God laughs, saying to Himself, ‘I am going to take his life, and this man says he will save other,
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Man needs a guru. But a man must have faith in the guru’s words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his guru as God Himself.
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So long as the bee is outside the petals of the lily, and has not tasted the sweetness of its honey, it hovers around the flower emitting the buzzing sound; but when it is inside the flower
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Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.
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The way of love is as true as the way of knowledge. All paths ultimately lead to the same Truth. But as long as God keeps the feeling of ego in us, it is easier to follow the path of love.
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