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You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion… different temperaments… differences in the capacity to comprehend.

Ramakrishna

It is true that God is even in the tiger, but we must not go and face the animal.
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Animal Dwell Face God Tiger Wicked
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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Again Die Fire Ignorance Knowledge Naked Person True Well
God, the true Philosopher’s Stone, Who answers every prayer, Lies hidden deep within your heart
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Answer Deep Heart Hidden Philosopher Prayer Stone True
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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Attachment Comfort God Name Pray
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.
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God Ideal Meditate Nature Night Quire Thinking
We laugh at the efforts of the musk deer to find the source of the scent which comes from itself and despair at our efforts to find the peace which is our essence.
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Deer Effort Essence Laugh Laughing Musk Source
Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.
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Alone Bondage Liberation Mind
They are fully conscious that they are not the doer of their actions, but only servants of God.
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Action Conscious Doer Fully God Servant
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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Again Fall Hardly Old Possession Sin Water
Different people call on [God] by different names: some as Allah, some as God, and others as Krishna, Siva, and Brahman. It is like the water in a lake.
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Allah Brahman Christian God Krishna Lake Name People Siva
That is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing.
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Borrow Crowded Mind Over Studying
He has not tasted the nectar of true faith; when he has tasted it, he becomes quiet and full of peace.
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Nectar Peace Quite Tasted True Faith
Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.
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Duties Duty Few Finish Hand Peace
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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Appear Divided Inside Outside Part Perceive Pot Water
Meditate upon the Knowledge and Bliss Eternal , and you will also have bliss.
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Attachment Bliss Eternal Ignorance Indeed Knowledge Meditate
The breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward.
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Blowing Boat Breeze Forward Grace Moving Sail

You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion… different temperaments… differences in the capacity to comprehend.

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You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion… different temperaments… differences in the capacity to comprehend.

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