Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.
RAMAKRISHNA
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.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer
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As long as I live, so long do I learn.
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Make your meditation a continuous state of mind. A great worship is going on all the time, so nothing should be neglected or excluded from your constant meditative awareness.
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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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The truth is that you cannot attain God if you have even a trace of desire. Subtle is the way of dharma.
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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 breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.
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Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.
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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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Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning,
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The same old sins take possession of him again. He is hardly out of the waters before they fall upon him.
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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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It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable.
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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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