An ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receive
RAMAKRISHNAOne day, it was suddenly revealed to me that everything is pure spirit.
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The ego is like the root of a banyan tree, you think you have removed it all then one fine morning you see a sprout flourishing again.
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No sooner does the man come back from the holy waters that the old sins jump on his shoulders from the trees.
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The young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force.
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You should not feel that your path is the only right path and that other paths are wrong. You mustn’t bear malice toward others.
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The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek.
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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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Dwell, O mind, within yourself; Enter no other’s home. If you but seek there, you will find All you are searching for.
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So it is with man; one is beautiful, another is ugly, a third holy, and a fourth wicked; but the Divine Being dwells in them all.
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Knowledge leads to unity, but ignorance to diversity.
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Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant.
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The virtuous and the vicious. Therefore when I meet different people I say to myself, “God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner
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Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.
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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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Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.
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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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