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Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish.

Ramakrishna

One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear.
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Fear Hatred Long Shame Spiritual
All troubles come to an end when the ego dies
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Die Ego End Over Trouble
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
Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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Essential God God Love Unemployed Unreal
God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
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God Man Manifest Serve Worship Worshipping
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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Form God Meet People Saint Vicious Virtuous
You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises.
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Heaven Ignorance Night Rise Sky Star Sun
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.
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Different Fall Flow God Reach Religion Religious River Sea True
They are fully conscious that they are not the doer of their actions, but only servants of God.
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Action Conscious Doer Fully God Servant
More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.
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Approached Hypocrite Infinite May Name
It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
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Difficult Easy Practice Religion Talk
The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God’s compassion. He has given it to them to protect the helpless.
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Compassion Given Helpless Protect
Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant.
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Anyway Art Football Hear Praying
Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say ‘I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me’ free you shall be.
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Bondage Free Freedom God Mind Son Soul
The fool who repeats again and again: “I am bound, I am bound,” remains in bondage. He who repeats day and night: “I am a sinner, I am a sinner,” becomes a sinner indeed.
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Fool Guilt Night
Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, you will find nothing (no true religion) anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here (i .e . in one ‘s own heart.)
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Anywhere Earth Four Quater Religion Travel

Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish.

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