One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.
RAMAKRISHNAThe world is impermanent. [All things change. Knowing this helps you see the end of any difficulty and thereby have hope.]
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The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?
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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
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No sooner does the man come back from the holy waters that the old sins jump on his shoulders from the trees.
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Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.
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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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So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination.
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Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a jar filled with water.
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The world is impermanent. [All things change. Knowing this helps you see the end of any difficulty and thereby have hope.]
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You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion… different temperaments… differences in the capacity to comprehend.
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Then hold fast to whichever faith appeals to you.
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If you want to go east, don’t go west.
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God cannot be realizxd if there is the slightest trace of pride.
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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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Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing.
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Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.
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