When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

- Ramakrishna

Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.

- Ramakrishna

Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.

- Ramakrishna

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

- Ramakrishna

Unalloyed love of God is the essential thing. All else is unreal.

- Ramakrishna

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

- Ramakrishna

Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.

- Ramakrishna

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

- Ramakrishna

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.

- Ramakrishna

Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.

- Ramakrishna

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.

- Ramakrishna

If you want to go east, don't go west.

- Ramakrishna

One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.

- Ramakrishna

Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.

- Ramakrishna

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

- Ramakrishna

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

- Ramakrishna

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

- Ramakrishna

God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.

- 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

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

- Ramakrishna