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
RAMAKRISHNAThe less your attachment is towards the senses, the more will be your love towards God .
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.
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Man needs a guru. But a man must have faith in the guru’s words. He succeeds in spiritual life by looking on his guru as God Himself.
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The breeze of grace is always blowing on you. You have to open the sails and your boat will move forward.
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In the same way the pleasures of this world are very attractive in the beginning, but their consequences are terrible to contemplate and hard to endure.
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The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.
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Meditate upon the Knowledge and Bliss Eternal , and you will also have bliss.
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After that, what is the need of books? One should learn the essence and then dive deep in order to realize God.
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Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, you will find nothing (no true religion) anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here (i .e . in one ‘s own heart.)
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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.
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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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The truth is that you cannot attain God if you have even a trace of desire. Subtle is the way of dharma.
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This side is mine and that side is yours.’ He laughs and says to Himself, ‘The whole universe belongs to Me, but they say they own this portion or that portion.’it!’
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The way of love is as true as the way of knowledge. All paths ultimately lead to the same Truth. But as long as God keeps the feeling of ego in us, it is easier to follow the path of love.
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Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant.
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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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