When you meditate, go into the solitude of a forest, or a quiet corner, and enter into the chamber of your heart. And always keep your power of discrimination awake.
RAMAKRISHNAWhen you meditate, go into the solitude of a forest, or a quiet corner, and enter into the chamber of your heart. And always keep your power of discrimination awake.
RAMAKRISHNAThe waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?
RAMAKRISHNAAll will surely realize God. All will be liberated. It may be that some get their meal in the morning, some at noon, and some in the evening; but none will go without food.
RAMAKRISHNAIt is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
RAMAKRISHNAIf diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them.
RAMAKRISHNAGod, the true Philosopher’s Stone, Who answers every prayer, Lies hidden deep within your heart
RAMAKRISHNAMore are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.
RAMAKRISHNAThe breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward.
RAMAKRISHNAOnce a person has faith, he has achieved everything.
RAMAKRISHNAThe world is impermanent. [All things change. Knowing this helps you see the end of any difficulty and thereby have hope.]
RAMAKRISHNAThe water of God’s grace cannot collect on the high mound of egotism. It runs down.
RAMAKRISHNAThe 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
RAMAKRISHNASugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad.
RAMAKRISHNACommon men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.
RAMAKRISHNAGod laughs on two occasions. He laughs when the physician says to the patient’s mother, ‘Don’t be afraid, mother; I shall certainly cure your boy.’
RAMAKRISHNAIf you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.
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