Teachings of Sri Ramakrishna

Even while one is performing one's duties, the mind should be left with God.

P. 162 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

Teachings of Swami Vivekananda

By the grace of the Guru, a disciple becomes a pandit even without reading books.

Sayings and utterances. Complete Works, 5:414.

Teachings of Sri Ramakrishna

"Can one ever bring God under control through wealth?"
Sri Ramakrishna: "He can be tamed only through love. What does He want? certainly not wealth! He wants from His devotees love, devotion, feeling, discrimination, and renunciation." P. 322 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

Teachings of Sri Ramakrishna

You must remember that nothing can be achieved except, in its proper time. P. 162 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna

Teachings of Holy Mother - Sarada Devi

The difference between a great soul and an ordinary man is this: the latter weeps while leaving this body, whereas the former laughs.
Death seems to him a mere play.

TN253 Swami Tapasyananda and Swami Nikhilananda. Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations. Madras: Sri Ramakrishna Math, 1977.

Teachings of Holy Mother - Sarada Devi

However spiritual a man may be, he must pay the tax for the use of the body to the last farthing
(i.e. undergo suffering and death incidental to the embodied state).

TN253 Swami Tapasyananda and Swami Nikhilananda. Sri Sarada Devi, the Holy Mother; Life and Conversations. Madras: Sri Ramakrishna Math, 1977.