The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails.
RAMAKRISHNAThe 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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So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination.
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Those whose spiritual awareness has been awakened never make a false move. They don’t have to avoid evil.
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God cannot be realizxd if there is the slightest trace of pride.
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You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.
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Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.
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As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge.
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Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.
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In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.
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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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It is not lust alone that one should be afraid of in the life of the world. There is also anger. Anger arises when obstacles are placed in the way of desire.
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So long as the heart of man is directed towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness.
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Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, you will find nothing (no true religion) anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here (i .e . in one ‘s own heart.)
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No sooner does the man come back from the holy waters that the old sins jump on his shoulders from the trees.
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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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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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