One feels that way as long as this pot of ‘I’ exists. When the ‘I’ disappears, what is remains. That cannot be described in words.
RAMAKRISHNA
You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion… different temperaments… differences in the capacity to comprehend.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully.
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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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Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
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Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing.
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In mutual love the lover not only wants the happiness of his beloved; but has an eye towards his own happiness also.
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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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The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.
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Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.
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Then hold fast to whichever faith appeals to you.
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Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.
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The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it.
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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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The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
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Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God.
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