No sooner does the man come back from the holy waters that the old sins jump on his shoulders from the trees.
RAMAKRISHNAKnowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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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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Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
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God laughs, saying to Himself, ‘I am going to take his life, and this man says he will save other,
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God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
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The winds of God’s grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails.
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One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.
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The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God’s compassion. He has given it to them to protect the helpless.
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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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But it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world.
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Sugar 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.
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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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All troubles come to an end when the ego dies
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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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Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant.
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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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