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The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails.

Ramakrishna

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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Fiber Needle Slight Sticking Succeed Thread Trying
A devotee who can call on God while living a householder’s life is a hero indeed. God thinks: ‘He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties.
RAMAKRISHNA

Bless Block God Hero Householder Indeed Prayer Real
Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.
RAMAKRISHNA

Duties Duty Few Finish Hand Peace
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
RAMAKRISHNA

Book Good Many Reading Religious Saying
The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God’s compassion. He has given it to them to protect the helpless.
RAMAKRISHNA

Compassion Given Helpless Protect
The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
RAMAKRISHNA

Believe Discard Mixture Non-Believe Positive Truth World
If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent.
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Appear Holy Indeed Man Smallest Stain Ugly White
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.
RAMAKRISHNA

Cloud Heart Light Long Ray Similarly Sun World
Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.
RAMAKRISHNA

Ask Dawn God Heart Love Minded Pray Pumpkin Pure
We laugh at the efforts of the musk deer to find the source of the scent which comes from itself and despair at our efforts to find the peace which is our essence.
RAMAKRISHNA

Deer Effort Essence Laugh Laughing Musk Source
God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
RAMAKRISHNA

God Man Manifest Serve Worship Worshipping
If however, you once see your Divine Mother, you will not afterwards find pleasure in all these. Throwing them all aside, you will run to her.
RAMAKRISHNA

Adie Afterward Divine Mother Pleasure Them Throwing
Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.
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Benares Different Hearing Reading
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

Bamboo Climb Reach Rope Stair Stone Wooden
You too, are now playing in this material world, infatuated with the dolls of wealth, honour, fame, etc.
RAMAKRISHNA

Doll Fame Honour Infatuated Material Playing Wealth World
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.
RAMAKRISHNA

Boy Failing Fall Fear Fixing Perform Pillar Whirl Worldly

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