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The world is impermanent. [All things change. Knowing this helps you see the end of any difficulty and thereby have hope.]

Ramakrishna

The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails.
RAMAKRISHNA

Blow Grace Need Sail Set Time Wind
It is true that God is even in the tiger, but we must not go and face the animal.
RAMAKRISHNA

Animal Dwell Face God Tiger Wicked
Little children play with dolls in the outer room just as they like, without any care of fear or restraint; but as soon as their mother comes in, they throw aside their dolls and run to her crying, “Mamma, mamma.
RAMAKRISHNA

Care Children Doll Fear Little Mother Play Restrain Running
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
RAMAKRISHNA

Faith Flower Honey Hover Peace Portal Sweetness Tasted
God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
RAMAKRISHNA

Form God Righteous Unrighteous
All, without any exception, will certainly know their real Self.
RAMAKRISHNA

Certainty Exception Know Real Self
Men are like pillow-cases. The colour of one may be red, that of another blue, and that of the third black; but all contain the same cotton within.
RAMAKRISHNA

Beautiful Black Blue Case Colour Man Pillow Third
Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.
RAMAKRISHNA

Allow Doe Evil God Plot Thicken World
God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof.
RAMAKRISHNA

Bamboo Important Path Reach Realize Rope
Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.
RAMAKRISHNA

Benares Different Hearing Reading
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
RAMAKRISHNA

Brother Divide Forgetting God Land Laugh Master Physician Think
By the mind one is bound; by the mind one is freed. … He who asserts with strong conviction: “I am not bound, I am free,” becomes free.
RAMAKRISHNA

Assert Bound Conviction Freed Mind Strong
An ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receive
RAMAKRISHNA

Down Heaven Ocean Rain Receive Thimble
They are so replete with love that whatever they do is a good action.
RAMAKRISHNA

Action Do Good Replete Whatever
If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them.
RAMAKRISHNA

Conclude Divide Doe Healing Pearl Sea
It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable.
RAMAKRISHNA

Afterward Intolerable Painful Pleasant Scratch Sensation Way World

The world is impermanent. [All things change. Knowing this helps you see the end of any difficulty and thereby have hope.]

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