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The virtuous and the vicious. Therefore when I meet different people I say to myself, “God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner

Ramakrishna

A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.
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Aspirant Boat Live Spiritual Stay Water World
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
The virtuous and the vicious. Therefore when I meet different people I say to myself, “God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner
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Form God Meet People Saint Vicious Virtuous
You speak of doing good to the world. Is the world such a small thing? And who are you, pray, to do good to the world?
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Discipline Good Mean Small Spiritual Thing Work World
By the mind one is bound; by the mind one is freed. … He who asserts with strong conviction: “I am not bound, I am free,” becomes free.
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Assert Bound Conviction Freed Mind Strong
We laugh at the efforts of the musk deer to find the source of the scent which comes from itself and despair at our efforts to find the peace which is our essence.
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Deer Effort Essence Laugh Laughing Musk Source
Bhakti is the one essential thing. To be sure, God exists in all beings. Who, then is a devotee?
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Devotee Essential Exist God Long Running Vanity
It’s enough to have faith in one aspect of God. You have faith in God without form.
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Faith In God Have Faith Real
They are fully conscious that they are not the doer of their actions, but only servants of God.
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Action Conscious Doer Fully God Servant
The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God’s compassion. He has given it to them to protect the helpless.
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Compassion Given Helpless Protect
When you meditate, go into the solitude of a forest, or a quiet corner, and enter into the chamber of your heart. And always keep your power of discrimination awake.
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Corner Forest Heart Meditation Quite Solitude
Great men have the nature of a child.
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As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge.
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In mutual love the lover not only wants the happiness of his beloved; but has an eye towards his own happiness also.
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Beloved Eye Happiness Loer Love Mutual Own Towards
When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
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Attain. Appear Bad Distinction Divine Good High Low Vision
Men are like pillow-cases. The colour of one may be red, that of another blue, and that of the third black; but all contain the same cotton within.
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