The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
RAMAKRISHNAThose whose spiritual awareness has been awakened never make a false move. They don’t have to avoid evil.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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The physician thinks he is the master, forgetting that God is the Master. God laughs again when two brothers divide their land with a string, saying to each
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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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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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The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction.
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Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own.
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He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realize God in this very life.
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He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle – pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.
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So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination.
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Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? Because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
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We laugh at the efforts of the musk deer to find the source of the scent which comes from itself and despair at our efforts to find the peace which is our essence.
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Because of the pot the water appears to be divided into two parts; because of the pot you seem to perceive an inside and an outside.
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Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.
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Similarly, though ahamkara (egotism) is slain in the perfect man, yet enough of its vitality is left to make him carry on the functions of physical life;
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That is very good. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false. Know for certain that God without form is real and that God with form is also real.
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Common 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.
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