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.
RAMAKRISHNAIf you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in a few years.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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If you are trying to thread a needle, you will not succeed if the thread has even a slight fiber sticking out.
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Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad.
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The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails.
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That is very good. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false. Know for certain that God without form is real and that God with form is also real.
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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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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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There are three kinds of love; unselfish, mutual, and selfish. The unselfish love is of the highest kind; The lover only minds the welfare of the beloved and does not care for his own sufferings. .
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Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a jar filled with water.
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The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.
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If there are errors in other religions, that is none of our business. God, to whom the world belongs, takes care of that.
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The physician thinks he is the master, forgetting that God is the Master. God laughs again when two brothers divide their land with a string, saying to each
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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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Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God.
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God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
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God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof.
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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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If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent.
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They are fully conscious that they are not the doer of their actions, but only servants of God.
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In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.
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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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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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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.
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It noiselessly drinks the nectar. So long as a man quarrels and disputes about doctrines and dogmas
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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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It is enough to have sincere yearning for God. Infinite are the paths and infinite are the opinions.
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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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