The young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force.
RAMAKRISHNAMany 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.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises.
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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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So long as the bee is outside the petals of the lily, and has not tasted the sweetness of its honey, it hovers around the flower emitting the buzzing sound; but when it is inside the flower
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It is enough to have sincere yearning for God. Infinite are the paths and infinite are the opinions.
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The supreme purpose and goal for human life… is to cultivate love.
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It is true that God is even in the tiger, but we must not go and face the animal.
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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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There is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. The ‘I’ is the jar.
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Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.
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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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Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.
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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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Make your meditation a continuous state of mind. A great worship is going on all the time, so nothing should be neglected or excluded from your constant meditative awareness.
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The fool who repeats again and again: “I am bound, I am bound,” remains in bondage. He who repeats day and night: “I am a sinner, I am a sinner,” becomes a sinner indeed.
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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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When you meditate, go into the solitude of a forest, or a quiet corner, and enter into the chamber of your heart. And always keep your power of discrimination awake.
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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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But it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world.
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Allow others also equal liberty to stand by their own faith and opinion.
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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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If you are trying to thread a needle, you will not succeed if the thread has even a slight fiber sticking out.
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There are three kinds of love; unselfish, mutual, and selfish. The unselfish love is of the highest kind; The lover only minds the welfare of the beloved and does not care for his own sufferings. .
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Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.
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That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.
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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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If there are errors in other religions, that is none of our business. God, to whom the world belongs, takes care of that.
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