So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination.
RAMAKRISHNAIf you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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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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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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If you want to go east, don’t go west.
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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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One should not think, ‘My religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.’ God can be realized by means of all paths.
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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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What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.
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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
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They are fully conscious that they are not the doer of their actions, but only servants of God.
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Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
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God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
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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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The Hindus call it ‘jal’, the Christians ‘water’, and the Moslems ‘pani’. But it is one and the same thing.
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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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God cannot be realizxd if there is the slightest trace of pride.
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