Inspirational Quotations by Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

  • As long as I live, so long do I learn
    From Issue 124
  • The winds of grace are blowing all the time.
    You have only to raise your sail.
    From Issue 217
  • 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.
    From Issue 230
  • Men are like pillow-cases. The colour of one may be red,
    that of another blue, and that of the third black;
    but all contain the same cotton within. So it is with man;
    one is beautiful, another is ugly, a third holy ,
    and a fourth wicked; but the Divine Being dwells in them all.
    From Issue 244
  • 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.
    From Issue 268
  • Rain-water never stands on high ground,
    but runs down to the lowest level.
    So also the mercy of God remains in the hearts of the lowly,
    but drains off from those of the vain and the proud.
    From Issue 273
  • As a toy fruit or a toy elephant reminds one of the real fruit and
    the living animal, so do the images that are worshipped remind one
    of the God who is formless and eternal.
    From Issue 292
  • I see God walking in every human form. When I meet different people, I say to myself, "God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous."
    From Issue 323

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