Different 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.
RAMAKRISHNASunlight 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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The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.
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It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
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Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.
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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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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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The Hindus call it ‘jal’, the Christians ‘water’, and the Moslems ‘pani’. But it is one and the same thing.
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God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
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The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?
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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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Dwell, O mind, within yourself; Enter no other’s home. If you but seek there, you will find All you are searching for.
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If however, you once see your Divine Mother, you will not afterwards find pleasure in all these. Throwing them all aside, you will run to her.
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God, the true Philosopher’s Stone, Who answers every prayer, Lies hidden deep within your heart
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As long as I live, so long do I learn.
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It is easy to bend the young heart towards God, but the untrained heart of the old escapes the hold whenever it is so drawn.
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So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.
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