"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"To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end."
Ramakrishna"One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God."
Ramakrishna"Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached."
Ramakrishna"If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God."
Ramakrishna"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"God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer."
Ramakrishna"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"It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it."
Ramakrishna"Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious."
Ramakrishna"If you want to go east, don't go west."
Ramakrishna"Work, apart from devotion or love of God, is helpless and cannot stand alone."
Ramakrishna"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"Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here."
Ramakrishna