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Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.

Ramakrishna

The breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward.
RAMAKRISHNA

Blowing Boat Breeze Forward Grace Moving Sail
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
As long as I live, so long do I learn.
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Learn Live Long
They are fully conscious that they are not the doer of their actions, but only servants of God.
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Action Conscious Doer Fully God Servant
If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent.
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Appear Holy Indeed Man Smallest Stain Ugly White
First realise God, see Him by means of spiritual discipline. If He imparts power you can do good to others; otherwise not.
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Discipline God Good Impart Power Raise Spiritual
God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.
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God Inspirational Man Suffer Suffering
But it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world.
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Again Bind Sufficient World
It is true that God is even in the tiger, but we must not go and face the animal.
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Animal Dwell Face God Tiger Wicked
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
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
All troubles come to an end when the ego dies
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Die Ego End Over Trouble
The virtuous and the vicious. Therefore when I meet different people I say to myself, “God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner
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Form God Meet People Saint Vicious Virtuous
The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction.
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Aways Direction Heart Magnetic Man Needle North Ocean Vessel
Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.
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Alone Guide Guru Universe
The winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails.
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Blow Grace Need Sail Set Time Wind

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