Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God. Ramakrishna Read Quote
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. Ramakrishna Read Quote
Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth. Ramakrishna Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here. Ramakrishna Read Quote
If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled. Ramakrishna Read Quote
Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house. Ramakrishna Read Quote
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 Read Quote