Ramakrishna Quotes

Until we give up the world manufactured by the ego, never can we enter the kingdom of heaven. None ever did, none ever will.

When someone becomes transparent, then something shines through that person that has nothing to do with the person or any of his or her personal history. What is required is becoming so transparent that the self or ego dissolves.

Meditation is the art of dying. Then your ego will be shocked. And it is also truer to cal I it the art of dying, because you r ego is not going to grow, your ego is going to die in meditation.

It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.

That's why we cannot love, because with the ego, love is impossible. That's why we go on talking so much about love, but we never are in love. And whatsoever we call love is more or less sex, it is not love; because you cannot lose your ego, and love cannot exist unless the ego has disappeared. Love, meditation, godliness, they all require one thing - the ego must not be there. That's why Jesus is right in saying that God is love, because both phenomena happen only when the ego is not.

The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a True Human Being.

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.

A disciple asked, "Who is a Master?" The Master replied, "Anyone to whom it is given to let go of the ego. Such a person's life is then a masterpiece.

Forget the dancer, the center of the ego. Become the dance. Then the dancer disappears and only the dance remains. Then the dancer is the dance. There is no dancer separate from dance, no dance separate from the dancer.

Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.

I have seen cases where people seemed to become totally free of ego, and at some point in their lives the ego came back. It has happened, for example, to some spiritual teachers. At some point in their lives, they began to identify again with form.

Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done.' We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.

Cut out the love of self, like an autumn lotus with thy hand!

Meditation is not growth of the ego, it is death of the ego.

All that God asks you most pressingly is to go out of yourself … and let God be God in you

Happiness is the death of the ego. If you want to remain a separate entity from existence as almost everybody is trying to do, you will be afraid of being blissful, cheerful. You will feel guilty in being blissful. You will feel suicidal because you are committing suicide on the psychological level, on the level of the ego.

Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we don't see the self as self, what do we have to fear?

It is only by frequent deaths of ourselves and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully.

All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.

When the mind goes beyond the thought of 'the me,' the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a possibility of a happiness that is incorruptible.

True freedom means freeing oneself from the dictates of the ego and its accompanying emotions.

You cease totally and only then you arrive. You enter into the world of God, or godliness, only when you are no more.

Do not feed your ego and your problems with your attention. ...Slowly, surely, the ego will lose weight, until one fine day it will be nothing but a thin ghost of its former self. You will be able to see right through it, to the divine presence that shines in each of us.

I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything.

To attain Buddhahood ... we must scatter this life's aims and objects to the wind.