Ramakrishna

Bondage is of the mind freedom too is of the mind. If you say ‘I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me’ free you shall be.

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.

A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything.

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.

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

God is in all men, but all men are not in God that is why we suffer.

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

If you must be mad, be it not for the things of the world. Be mad with the love of God.