#or

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

— Ramakrishna

#god #good #man #manifest #most

Oh- and grab the plastic bag over by my suitcase." I slug down the last of the coffee and get up. The bag contains panty hose. I put them on her desk. "They're for you." "You want me to look homeless, desperate, but also kind of fabulous? ↗

— Holly Black

#hilarious #humor #funny

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

— Ramakrishna

#indeed #make-believe #mixture #take #truth

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. ↗

— Ramakrishna

#first #fortify #knowledge #live #midst

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

— Ramakrishna

#become #comforts #creature #day #every

Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached. ↗

— Ramakrishna

#forms #god #infinite #many #may

We hope that through these trade arrangements, through collaboration in training, in manpower development, and what have you, ASEAN in, say, ten years' time, will be a very different ASEAN. ↗

— Sellapan Ramanathan

#asean #collaboration #development #different #hope

Well, the important message that we've always carried to China is that we look forward to your progress and prosperity, we look forward to you playing a role in the progress and prosperity of this region and we look forward to stability in your relations with others. ↗

— Sellapan Ramanathan

#carried #china #forward #important #important message

Well, you have a defence attache here, that's a step forward. Your Defence Minister has been here, our defence people have exchanges with you. So friendly relations at the military level are already in existence. ↗

— Sellapan Ramanathan

#been #defence #exchanges #existence #forward

You are slowly developing some multinationals of your own. We certainly hope that some of them will look in this direction when they look for opportunities because the progress of Southeast Asia is important to China, just as China's progress is important to us. ↗

— Sellapan Ramanathan

#because #certainly #china #developing #direction