The winds of God’s grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails.
RAMAKRISHNAUnalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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An ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receive
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It is easy to bend the young heart towards God, but the untrained heart of the old escapes the hold whenever it is so drawn.
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But it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world.
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Great men have the nature of a child.
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Make your meditation a continuous state of mind. A great worship is going on all the time, so nothing should be neglected or excluded from your constant meditative awareness.
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They are so replete with love that whatever they do is a good action.
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So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.
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Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own.
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Have love for everyone, no one is other than you.
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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.
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Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, you will find nothing (no true religion) anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here (i .e . in one ‘s own heart.)
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No sooner does the man come back from the holy waters that the old sins jump on his shoulders from the trees.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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All will surely realize God. All will be liberated. It may be that some get their meal in the morning, some at noon, and some in the evening; but none will go without food.
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Dwell, O mind, within yourself; Enter no other’s home. If you but seek there, you will find All you are searching for.
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