In mutual love the lover not only wants the happiness of his beloved; but has an eye towards his own happiness also.
RAMAKRISHNASpirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own.
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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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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.
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Allow others also equal liberty to stand by their own faith and opinion.
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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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Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? Because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
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But it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world.
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So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination.
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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 young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force.
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Man suffers through lack of faith in God.
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God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
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Man needs a guru. But a man must have faith in the guru’s words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his guru as God Himself.
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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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The physician thinks he is the master, forgetting that God is the Master. God laughs again when two brothers divide their land with a string, saying to each
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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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