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• God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer.

  Ramakrishna

  Inspirational, Men, Suffering

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• The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.

  Ramakrishna

  World, Remember, Should

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant.

  Ramakrishna

  Ants, Praying

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• Great men have the nature of a child.

  Ramakrishna

  Children, Greatness, Men

  Ramakrishna (1916). “Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: the most exhaustive collection of the sacred and inspired utterances of Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna”

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• Do yourself what you wish others to do.

  Ramakrishna

  Wish

  Ramakrishna (1916). “Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: the most exhaustive collection of the sacred and inspired utterances of Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna”

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• One cannot be spiritual as long as one has shame, hatred, or fear.

  Ramakrishna

  Spiritual, Long, Hatred

  "The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna". Book by Ramakrishna, transl. by Swami Nikhilananda p. 186, 1942.

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• 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. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.

  Ramakrishna

  Water, Bird, Skins

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• You should not feel that your path is the only right path and that other paths are wrong. You mustn't bear malice toward others.

  Ramakrishna

  Path, Bears, Should

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• It is not lust alone that one should be afraid of in the life of the world. There is also anger. Anger arises when obstacles are placed in the way of desire.

  Ramakrishna

  Anger, Lust, Desire

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.

  Ramakrishna

  Real, Persistence, Practice

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• Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.

  Ramakrishna

  True Nature

  Ramakrishna (1960). “Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120”

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• To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward.

  Ramakrishna

  Attachment, Expectations, Rewards

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• It is very pleasant to scratch an itching ring-worm, but the sensation one gets afterwards is very painful and intolerable. 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.

  Ramakrishna

  World, Way, Scratches

  "Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna". Book by Ramakrishna, p. 548, 1960.

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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. So it is with man; one is beautiful, another is ugly, a third holy, and a fourth wicked; but the Divine Being dwells in them all.

  Ramakrishna

  Beautiful, Men, Blue

  "Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna", p. 37, 1960.

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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.

  Ramakrishna

  Moving, Grace, Boat

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• If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them.

  Ramakrishna

  Healing, Sea, Doe

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• When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.

  Ramakrishna

  Vision, Divine, Lows

  Ramakrishna (1965). “Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: the most exhaustive collection of them, their number being 1120”

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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. If you are trying to thread a needle, you will not succeed if the thread has even a slight fiber sticking out.

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  Desire, Trying, Way

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation.
  So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance.
  But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.

  Ramakrishna

  Ignorance, Long, Meditation

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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.

  Ramakrishna

  Wise, Men, Littles

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• Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a jar filled with water. There is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. The 'I' is the jar.

  Ramakrishna

  Water, Jars, Imagine

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully. 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.

  Ramakrishna

  Fall, Heart, Men

  "Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna". Book by Ramakrishna, p. 649, 1960.

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• If you want to go east, don't go west.

  Ramakrishna

  East, Want, West

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• As long as I live, so long do I learn.

  Ramakrishna

  Long

  Ramakrishna (1965). “Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: the most exhaustive collection of them, their number being 1120”

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• The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?

  Ramakrishna

  Water, Ego, Doe

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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