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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.

Ramakrishna

If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in a few years.
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Devote Distraction Money Practice Spiritual Year
When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer
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Baked Broken Fire Ignorance Man Mud New One Potter
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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Beloved Eye Happiness Loer Love Mutual Own Towards
One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.
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Enter Jumping Mansion Over Stump
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
RAMAKRISHNA

God Inspirational Man Suffer Suffering
Similarly, though ahamkara (egotism) is slain in the perfect man, yet enough of its vitality is left to make him carry on the functions of physical life;
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Ahamkara Carry Egotism Man Perfect Slain Vitality
All, without any exception, will certainly know their real Self.
RAMAKRISHNA

Certainty Exception Know Real Self
The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.
RAMAKRISHNA

Always Blowing Grace Raise Sail Wind
When the head of a goat is severed from its body, the trunk struggles for some time, still showing signs of life.
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Goat Head Man Perfect Serve Struggle Time Trunk
Bhakti is the one essential thing. To be sure, God exists in all beings. Who, then is a devotee?
RAMAKRISHNA

Devotee Essential Exist God Long Running Vanity
The winds of God’s grace are always blowing, it is for us to raise our sails.
RAMAKRISHNA

Blowing Grace Inspirational Raise Sail Wind
The world is impermanent. [All things change. Knowing this helps you see the end of any difficulty and thereby have hope.]
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Difficulty Helping Hope Impermanent Knowing World
Do yourself what you wish others to do.
RAMAKRISHNA

Do Other Wish Yourself
All religions are true. God can be reached by different religions. Many rivers flow by many ways but they fall into the sea. They all are one.
RAMAKRISHNA

Different Fall Flow God Reach Religion Religious River Sea True
The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction.
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Aways Direction Heart Magnetic Man Needle North Ocean Vessel
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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Faith Flower Honey Hover Peace Portal Sweetness Tasted

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