If you are trying to thread a needle, you will not succeed if the thread has even a slight fiber sticking out.
RAMAKRISHNAIf 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.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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The water of God’s grace cannot collect on the high mound of egotism. It runs down.
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All, without any exception, will certainly know their real Self.
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Similarly, though ahamkara (egotism) is slain in the perfect man, yet enough of its vitality is left to make him carry on the functions of physical life;
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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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The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction.
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It’s enough to have faith in one aspect of God. You have faith in God without form.
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Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.
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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 is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
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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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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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Bhakti is the one essential thing. To be sure, God exists in all beings. Who, then is a devotee?
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Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.
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