The supreme purpose and goal for human life… is to cultivate love.
RAMAKRISHNAThe world is impermanent. [All things change. Knowing this helps you see the end of any difficulty and thereby have hope.]
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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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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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
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One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.
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Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.
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I have now come to a stage of realization in which I see that God is walking in every human form and manifesting Himself alike through the sage and the sinner
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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.
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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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So long as the heart of man is directed towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness.
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If there are errors in other religions, that is none of our business. God, to whom the world belongs, takes care of that.
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Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully.
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Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the good from the bad.
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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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Different people call on [God] by different names: some as Allah, some as God, and others as Krishna, Siva, and Brahman. It is like the water in a lake.
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The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction.
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They are fully conscious that they are not the doer of their actions, but only servants of God.
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