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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.

Ramakrishna

Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant.
RAMAKRISHNA

Anyway Art Football Hear Praying
No sooner does the man come back from the holy waters that the old sins jump on his shoulders from the trees.
RAMAKRISHNA

Back Come Holy Jump Man Old Shoulder Sin Sooner Water
The richest gem of all. How many pearls and precious stones Are scattered all about The outer court that lies before The chamber of your heart!
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Court Gem Outer Pearl Precious Richest Scattered Stone
The less your attachment is towards the senses, the more will be your love towards God .
RAMAKRISHNA

Bliss Covered Ignorance Indeed Obscured
I have now come to a stage of realization in which I see that God is walking in every human form and manifesting Himself alike through the sage and the sinner
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Different Form God Human Mainfiesting People Realization Saint Stage Walking
Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish.
RAMAKRISHNA

Bird Live Mudfish Off Shake Spin Water Waterfowl
If however, you once see your Divine Mother, you will not afterwards find pleasure in all these. Throwing them all aside, you will run to her.
RAMAKRISHNA

Adie Afterward Divine Mother Pleasure Them Throwing
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
Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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Body Disease House Soul Tax Tenant
He whose mind dwells on God. But this is not possible as long as one has egotism and vanity.
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Dwell Ego God Long Possible
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
Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
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Attachment Comfort God Name Pray
Because of the pot the water appears to be divided into two parts; because of the pot you seem to perceive an inside and an outside.
RAMAKRISHNA

Appear Divided Inside Outside Part Perceive Pot Water
If you want to go east, don’t go west.
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Confuse East Go Want West
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.
RAMAKRISHNA

Fool Guilt Night
When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
RAMAKRISHNA

Bee Bloom Cultivation Flower Inspirational Uninvited

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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