Ramakrishna

Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.

Pray to God that your attachment to such transitory things as wealth, name, and creature comforts may become less and less every day.

A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.

Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.

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

More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.

Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.

Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.

Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.

The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.

Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.

God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

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

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

When one has love for God, one doesn't feel any physical attraction to wife, children, relatives and friends. One retains only compassion for them.

The physicians of one class feel the patients and go away, merely prescribing medicine. As they leave the room they simply ask the patient to take the medicine. They are the poorest class of physicians.

If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.