The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.
RAMAKRISHNAYou speak of doing good to the world. Is the world such a small thing? And who are you, pray, to do good to the world?
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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If you meditate on your ideal, you will acquire its nature. If you think of God day and night, you will acquire the nature of God.
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The Hindus call it ‘jal’, the Christians ‘water’, and the Moslems ‘pani’. But it is one and the same thing.
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Great men have the nature of a child.
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Bhakti is the one essential thing. To be sure, God exists in all beings. Who, then is a devotee?
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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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Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.
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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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It is middling. The selfish love is the lowest. It only looks towards its own happiness, no matter whether the beloved suffers weal or woe
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God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
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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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A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.
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Those whose spiritual awareness has been awakened never make a false move. They don’t have to avoid evil.
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That knowledge which purifies the mind and heart alone is true Knowledge, all else is only a negation of Knowledge.
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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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When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.
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