It is true that God is even in the tiger, but we must not go and face the animal.
RAMAKRISHNADifferent people call on [God] by different names: some as Allah, some as God, and others as Krishna, Siva, and Brahman. It is like the water in a lake.
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The virtuous and the vicious. Therefore when I meet different people I say to myself, “God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner
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This side is mine and that side is yours.’ He laughs and says to Himself, ‘The whole universe belongs to Me, but they say they own this portion or that portion.’it!’
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God, the true Philosopher’s Stone, Who answers every prayer, Lies hidden deep within your heart
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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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When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
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Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say ‘I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me’ free you shall be.
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Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.
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Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant.
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Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God.
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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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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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It noiselessly drinks the nectar. So long as a man quarrels and disputes about doctrines and dogmas
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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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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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The water of God’s grace cannot collect on the high mound of egotism. It runs down.
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