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Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own.

Ramakrishna

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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Attractive Beginning Consequence Pleasure Terrible World
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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Brother Divide Forgetting God Land Laugh Master Physician Think
So it is with man; one is beautiful, another is ugly, a third holy, and a fourth wicked; but the Divine Being dwells in them all.
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Beautiful Divine Dwell Hold Man Ugly Wicked
If you keep your heart immersed always in the depth of that holy love, your heart is sure to remain ever full to overflowing with the Divine fervour of sacred love.
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Depth Heart Herat Holy Immerse Love Ocean Overflowing Sure
The supreme purpose and goal for human life… is to cultivate love.
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Cultivate Goal Human Life Purpose Supreme
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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Bagful Common Grain Little Man Religion Speak Wise
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.
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Day God Heaven Ignorance Say Therefore
If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.
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God Mad Thing World
Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing.
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Book Hearing Knowledge Reading Thinking Understanding
The breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward.
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Blowing Boat Breeze Forward Grace Moving Sail
It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable.
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Afterward Intolerable Painful Pleasant Scratch Sensation Way World
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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God Liberal Meal Morning Noon Real Realize Self
So it is true that God dwells even in the most wicked, but it is not meet that we should associate with the wicked.
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Associate Dwells God Meet Most True Wicked
The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again.
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Ego Flourishing Morning Root Sprout Thinking
Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.
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Duties Duty Few Finish Hand Peace
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

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