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The young bamboo can be easily bent, but the full grown bamboo breaks when it is bent with force.

Ramakrishna

Dwell, O mind, within yourself; Enter no other’s home. If you but seek there, you will find All you are searching for.
RAMAKRISHNA

Dwell Enter God Home Lying Prayer Search Searching Spiritual
It is enough to have sincere yearning for God. Infinite are the paths and infinite are the opinions.
RAMAKRISHNA

Enough God Infinite Opinion Sincere Yearning
Some drink it at one place and call it ‘jal’, others at another place and call it ‘pani’, and still others at a third place and call it ‘water’.
RAMAKRISHNA

Another Call Drink Other Pani Place Some Water
It’s enough to have faith in one aspect of God. You have faith in God without form.
RAMAKRISHNA

Faith In God Have Faith Real
One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.
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Attain Knowledge Land m Divine Pride Rid Water
Forget all the worldly knowledge that thou hast acquired and become as a child, and then will thou get the divine wisdom.
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Acquired Child Divine Forget Knowledge Wisdom Worldly
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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God Ideal Meditate Nature Night Quire Thinking
The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?
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Doe Ego Water Waxem Belong
That is very good. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false. Know for certain that God without form is real and that God with form is also real.
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Alone Certain Faith False Good Head
The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God’s compassion. He has given it to them to protect the helpless.
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Compassion Given Helpless Protect
If however, you once see your Divine Mother, you will not afterwards find pleasure in all these. Throwing them all aside, you will run to her.
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Adie Afterward Divine Mother Pleasure Them Throwing
As a boy holding to a post or a pillar whirls about it with headlong speed without any fear or falling, so perform your worldly duties, fixing your hold firmly upon God, and you will be free from danger.
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Boy Failing Fall Fear Fixing Perform Pillar Whirl Worldly
They are so replete with love that whatever they do is a good action.
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Action Do Good Replete Whatever
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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Book Hearing Knowledge Reading Thinking Understanding
All troubles come to an end when the ego dies
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Die Ego End Over Trouble
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.
RAMAKRISHNA

Good Grain Lift Man May Men Pious Sand Sugar Together

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