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

Ramakrishna

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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Aspirant Boat Live Spiritual Stay Water World
If you keep your heart immersed always in the depth of that holy love, your heart is sure to remain ever full to overflowing with the Divine fervour of sacred love.
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Depth Heart Herat Holy Immerse Love Ocean Overflowing Sure
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
By the mind one is bound; by the mind one is freed. … He who asserts with strong conviction: “I am not bound, I am free,” becomes free.
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Assert Bound Conviction Freed Mind Strong
The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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Believe Discard Mixture Non-Believe Positive Truth World
So is the light Divine. It falls equally and impartially on all hearts, but the pure and pious hearts of holy men receive and reflect that light well.
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Divine Equally Heart Impartially Light Man Receive
It is enough to have sincere yearning for God. Infinite are the paths and infinite are the opinions.
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Enough God Infinite Opinion Sincere Yearning
We laugh at the efforts of the musk deer to find the source of the scent which comes from itself and despair at our efforts to find the peace which is our essence.
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Deer Effort Essence Laugh Laughing Musk Source
Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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Body Disease House Soul Tax Tenant
The Bliss indeed is eternal, only it is covered and obscured by ignorance.
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Bliss Covered Eternal Ignorance Indeed Obscured
Great men have the nature of a child.
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Child Children Greatness Man Nature
Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant.
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Anyway Art Football Hear Praying
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
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Book Good Many Reading Religious Saying
Men are like pillow-cases. The colour of one may be red, that of another blue, and that of the third black; but all contain the same cotton within.
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Beautiful Black Blue Case Colour Man Pillow Third
Take the case of the infinite ocean. There is no limit to its water. Suppose a pot is immersed in it: there is water both inside and outside the pot.
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Case Immersed Infinite Inside Long Ocean Two Water
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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Bird Live Mudfish Off Shake Spin Water Waterfowl

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