212 Quotes by Ramakrishna

It is the mind that makes one wise or ignorant, bound or emancipated.

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 winds of grace blow all the time. All we need to do is set our sails.

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

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

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.

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

What is the use of merely listening to lectures? The real thing is practice.

You must know that there are different tastes. There are also different powers of digestion... different temperaments... differences in the capacity to comprehend.