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One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear.

Ramakrishna

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
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Bee Bloom Cultivation Flower Inspirational Uninvited
It is middling. The selfish love is the lowest. It only looks towards its own happiness, no matter whether the beloved suffers weal or woe
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Fall God Religion River Sea True Way
You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.
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Bamboo Climb Reach Rope Stair Stone Wooden
The supreme purpose and goal for human life… is to cultivate love.
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Cultivate Goal Human Life Purpose Supreme
You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion… different temperaments… differences in the capacity to comprehend.
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Differences Different Digestion Taste Temperament
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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Beloved Eye Happiness Loer Love Mutual Own Towards
Allow others also equal liberty to stand by their own faith and opinion.
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Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.
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Diversity Ignorance Knowledge Unity
If 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.
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Devote Distraction Money Practice Spiritual Year
Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.
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Attain Borm Cultivate Divine God Human Being Love Trying
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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There is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. The ‘I’ is the jar.
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Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.
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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.]
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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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Devotee Essential Exist God Long Running Vanity
Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully.
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One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear.

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