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Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna The breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna Meditate upon the Knowledge and Bliss Eternal , and you will also have bliss.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna So it is true that God dwells even in the most wicked, but it is not meet that we should associate with the wicked.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna Forget all the worldly knowledge that thou hast acquired and become as a child, and then will thou get the divine wisdom.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna Bhakti is the one essential thing. To be sure, God exists in all beings. Who, then is a devotee?
RamakrishnaRamakrishna Those whose spiritual awareness has been awakened never make a false move. They don’t have to avoid evil.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna You should love everyone because God dwells in all beings.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna A devotee who can call on God while living a householder’s life is a hero indeed. God thinks: ‘He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna 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.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna It is enough to have sincere yearning for God. Infinite are the paths and infinite are the opinions.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna 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.
RamakrishnaRamakrishna If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.
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Blissful comfort of pain and sorrow ravishes my rationality and drinks up my hope, for even thee whom I romanticize so deeply leaves me in a pool of intrusive thoughts telling me no matter what I say or do even the mirror despises you.
Zuzanna SzostakZuzanna Szostak What is meditation? Meditation is our conscious awareness of something vast and infinite within us. Meditation grants us Peace, Light and Bliss.
Sri ChinmoySri Chinmoy Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
Joseph ConradJoseph Conrad Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don’t know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind it is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
Emily BronteEmily Bronte Now a soft kiss – Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.
John KeatsJohn Keats You have come from God, you are a spark of His Glory; you are a wave of that Ocean of Bliss; you will get peace only when you again merge in Him.
Sathya Sai BabaSathya Sai Baba Hurry to your goal together. That is full bliss when man and woman lie equally conquered.
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