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

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Inspirational, Men, Suffering

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By the mind one is bound; by the mind one is freed. ... He who asserts with strong conviction: "I am not bound, I am free," becomes free.

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Strong, Mind, Conviction

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So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination. Forget all the worldly knowledge that thou hast acquired and become as a child, and then will thou get the divine wisdom.

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Children, Simple, Illumination

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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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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.

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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.

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Real, Persistence, Practice

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Have love for everyone, no one is other than you.

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Love

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You see many stars in the sky at night, but not when the sun rises. 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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Stars, Ignorance, Night

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

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An ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receive

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Rain, Ocean, Heaven

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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.

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Water, Jars, Imagine

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

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The world is impermanent. One should constantly remember death.

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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.

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Ants, Praying

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If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in a few years.

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Spiritual, Years, Practice

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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.

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Path, Bears, Should

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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.

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Ignorance, Long, Meditation

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

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Attachment, Expectations, Rewards

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Bondage and Liberation are of the mind alone.

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Mind, Bondage, Liberation

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

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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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Love, Heart, Dawn

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Forgiveness is the true nature of the ascetic.

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True Nature

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

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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.

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Beautiful, Men, Blue

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

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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.

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Vision, Divine, Lows

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

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Great men have the nature of a child.

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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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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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Meditation, Mind, Worship

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Man suffers through lack of faith in God.

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Men, Suffering, Faith In God

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

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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.

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Fall, Heart, Men

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

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Died: August 16, 1886
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