Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own.
RAMAKRISHNASo long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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When the head of a goat is severed from its body, the trunk struggles for some time, still showing signs of life.
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The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails.
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Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.
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Through selfless work, love of God grows in heart.
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You too, are now playing in this material world, infatuated with the dolls of wealth, honour, fame, etc.
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God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof.
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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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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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The supreme purpose and goal for human life… is to cultivate love.
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Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
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They are so replete with love that whatever they do is a good action.
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The same old sins take possession of him again. He is hardly out of the waters before they fall upon him.
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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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Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.
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If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in a few years.
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Have love for everyone, no one is other than you.
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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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I have now come to a stage of realization in which I see that God is walking in every human form and manifesting Himself alike through the sage and the sinner
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But it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world.
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Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.
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The way of love is as true as the way of knowledge. All paths ultimately lead to the same Truth. But as long as God keeps the feeling of ego in us, it is easier to follow the path of love.
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Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.
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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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