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When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited. ↗

— Ramakrishna

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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

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

— Ramakrishna

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

— Ramakrishna

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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

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

— Ramakrishna

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One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God. ↗

— Ramakrishna

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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally. ↗

— Ramakrishna

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

— Ramakrishna

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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. ↗

— Ramakrishna

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