The less the thought of the body, the better. For it is the body that drags us down.

I am the thread that runs through all these pearls, and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and God is the thread that runs through all of them; most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.

[The seers call him wise] whose every attempt is free, without any desire for gain, without any selfishness.

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands.

I hate this world, this dream, this horrible nightmare, with its churches and chicaneries, its books and blackguardisms, its fair faces and false hearts, its howling righteousness on the surface and utter hollowness beneath and, above all, its sanctified shopkeeping!

Shri Ramakrishna use to say, "As Long as I Live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death.

The Absolute and the Infinite can become this universe only by limitation.