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

Ramakrishna

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
Too much study of the scriptures does more harm than good. The important thing is to know the essence of the scriptures.
RAMAKRISHNA

Book Essence God Harm Important Learning Scripture Study
Spirituality automatically leads to humility. When a flower develops into a fruit, the petals drop off on its own.
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Automatic Develop Drop Flower Humility Own Petal Spiritual Wisdom
The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.
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Catch Determination Grace Persistence Sail
Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.
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Alone Bondage Liberation Mind
That is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing.
RAMAKRISHNA

Borrow Crowded Mind Over Studying
As long as I live, so long do I learn.
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Learn Live Long
When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
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Bee Bloom Cultivation Flower Inspirational Uninvited
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.
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Ask Dawn God Heart Love Minded Pray Pumpkin Pure
So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination.
RAMAKRISHNA

Child Children Illumination Knowledge Long Simple Worldly
Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.
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Benares Different Hearing Reading
Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
RAMAKRISHNA

Book Good Many Reading Religious Saying
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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Attain. Appear Bad Distinction Divine Good High Low Vision
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.
RAMAKRISHNA

Deer Effort Essence Laugh Laughing Musk Source
Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.
RAMAKRISHNA

Bagful Common Grain Little Man Religion Speak Wise
Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God.
RAMAKRISHNA

Creed Different God Path Reach

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