If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.
RAMAKRISHNAThe same old sins take possession of him again. He is hardly out of the waters before they fall upon him.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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This side is mine and that side is yours.’ He laughs and says to Himself, ‘The whole universe belongs to Me, but they say they own this portion or that portion.’it!’
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All, without any exception, will certainly know their real Self.
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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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First realise God, see Him by means of spiritual discipline. If He imparts power you can do good to others; otherwise not.
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So it is true that God dwells even in the most wicked, but it is not meet that we should associate with the wicked.
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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.
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He has not tasted the nectar of true faith; when he has tasted it, he becomes quiet and full of peace.
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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.
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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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So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.
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Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.
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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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As long as I live, so long do I learn.
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God laughs on two occasions. He laughs when the physician says to the patient’s mother, ‘Don’t be afraid, mother; I shall certainly cure your boy.’
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If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them.
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