If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God.
RAMAKRISHNAThe breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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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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After that, what is the need of books? One should learn the essence and then dive deep in order to realize God.
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God cannot be realizxd if there is the slightest trace of pride.
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Make your meditation a continuous state of mind. A great worship is going on all the time, so nothing should be neglected or excluded from your constant meditative awareness.
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A devotee who can call on God while living a householder’s life is a hero indeed. God thinks: ‘He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties.
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They are so replete with love that whatever they do is a good action.
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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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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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As long as I live, so long do I learn.
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Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.
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It is enough to have sincere yearning for God. Infinite are the paths and infinite are the opinions.
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It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable.
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Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.
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God 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.’
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If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.
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