Ramakrishna

“Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone.”

“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.”

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

“When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.”

“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.”

“The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.”