When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.
RAMAKRISHNAIf 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.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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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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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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Forget all the worldly knowledge that thou hast acquired and become as a child, and then will thou get the divine wisdom.
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Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.
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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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The Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance.
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They are so replete with love that whatever they do is a good action.
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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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One day, it was suddenly revealed to me that everything is pure spirit.
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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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No sooner does the man come back from the holy waters that the old sins jump on his shoulders from the trees.
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Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.
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God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
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He whose mind dwells on God. But this is not possible as long as one has egotism and vanity.
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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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