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In mutual love the lover not only wants the happiness of his beloved; but has an eye towards his own happiness also.

Ramakrishna

The world is impermanent. [All things change. Knowing this helps you see the end of any difficulty and thereby have hope.]
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Difficulty Helping Hope Impermanent Knowing World
Try to cultivate love of God. You are born as a human being only to attain divine love.
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Attain Borm Cultivate Divine God Human Being Love Trying
All troubles come to an end when the ego dies
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Die Ego End Over Trouble
You speak of doing good to the world. Is the world such a small thing? And who are you, pray, to do good to the world?
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Discipline Good Mean Small Spiritual Thing Work World
God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
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Form God Righteous Unrighteous
Make your meditation a continuous state of mind. A great worship is going on all the time, so nothing should be neglected or excluded from your constant meditative awareness.
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Continous Meditation Mind Neglect State Time Worship
Different people call on [God] by different names: some as Allah, some as God, and others as Krishna, Siva, and Brahman. It is like the water in a lake.
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Allah Brahman Christian God Krishna Lake Name People Siva
God laughs on two occasions. He laughs when the physician says to the patient’s mother, ‘Don’t be afraid, mother; I shall certainly cure your boy.’
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Boy Brother God Laugh Mother Occasion Patient Physician
The tree laden with fruits always bends low. If you wish to be great, be lowly and meek.
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Bend Great Lowly Meek Motivational Tree Wish
In mutual love the lover not only wants the happiness of his beloved; but has an eye towards his own happiness also.
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Beloved Eye Happiness Loer Love Mutual Own Towards
Similarly, though ahamkara (egotism) is slain in the perfect man, yet enough of its vitality is left to make him carry on the functions of physical life;
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Ahamkara Carry Egotism Man Perfect Slain Vitality
One should always maintain an attitude of respect towards other religions. Dispute not, as you rest firmly on your own faith and opinion
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Attitude Dispute Faith Maintain Religious Respect towards
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
The same old sins take possession of him again. He is hardly out of the waters before they fall upon him.
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Again Fall Hardly Old Possession Sin Water
Once a person has faith, he has achieved everything.
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Achieve Everything Faith Person
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
Little children play with dolls in the outer room just as they like, without any care of fear or restraint; but as soon as their mother comes in, they throw aside their dolls and run to her crying, “Mamma, mamma.
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Care Children Doll Fear Little Mother Play Restrain Running
Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
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God Soul Speak Truth Unless
Can you therefore say that there are no stars in the heavens during the day? Because you cannot find God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.
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Day God Heaven Ignorance Say Therefore
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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Blowing Boat Breeze Forward Grace Moving Sail
Dwell, O mind, within yourself; Enter no other’s home. If you but seek there, you will find All you are searching for.
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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.
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Enough God Infinite Opinion Sincere Yearning
Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.
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Alone Bondage Liberation Mind
A devotee who can call on God while living a householder’s life is a hero indeed. God thinks: ‘He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties.
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Bless Block God Hero Householder Indeed Prayer Real
It is on account of the ego that one is not able to see God. In front of the door of God’s mansion lies the stump of ego.
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Account Door Ego God Jumping Lie Lying Mansion Stump
You should love everyone because God dwells in all beings.
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Being Dwell God Love Everyone
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

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