The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek.
RAMAKRISHNADisease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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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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The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.
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Do yourself what you wish others to do.
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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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A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.
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Men are like pillow-cases. The colour of one may be red, that of another blue, and that of the third black; but all contain the same cotton within.
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Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own.
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Man suffers through lack of faith in God.
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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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Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.
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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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The winds of God’s grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails.
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If you want to go east, don’t go west.
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As a boy holding to a post or a pillar whirls about it with headlong speed without any fear or falling, so perform your worldly duties, fixing your hold firmly upon God, and you will be free from danger.
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He whose mind dwells on God. But this is not possible as long as one has egotism and vanity.
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