The path to spiritual growth is much easier with the help of people who have already achieved perfection and can answer your questions about overcoming the many obstacles that come up. Back in print after many years, this is the original collection of the sayings of the disciples of Ramakrishna, 
arranged by subject. From the Table of Contents: Fundamental Tenets; External Behavior: The Guru and Holy Company; Service; General Advice; Food and Personal Habits; Pilgrimages; Moral Principles: Morality; Truth; Duty;Forbearance and Compassion; Purity; Continence and Self-Control; Mental Attitudes; Spiritual Practices: Ritualistic Worship; Pranayama; Prayer; Japa; Meditation; Realization..
To conquer [the]mind is more difficult than to conquer the whole world who has conquered his own mind.
Right discrimination of the conditions which make one happy or unhappy is the surest guide in the path which leads to the attainment of self-control.
The common man takes to those activities which tend to perpetuate the bond of attachment.And this is true of the whole world.The only exceptions are the sadhus,who have found out the evanescence of the world and renounced it.Knowledge dawns when discrimination is perfect.
Always discriminate,Try to realize that the outside object which is attracting your mind is impermanent,and turn your attention to God.
In solitude pray to God morning and evening and try to perceive the fleeting nature of the world.Then the mind will be withdrawn from earthly objects and will gradually become inward.perfect concentration is attained,of course,sometimes,only after lifelong struggle.
The mind which is attached to more than one thing can never reach the goal.
Desirelessness and the vision of God are like the opposite sides of the same leaf.
If one does not want sense enjoyment,if one hates the approach ofany thought ofit in themind,of their own accord will all desires for sense-objects fly away…It is beause we cling to sense objects that desire for them does not leave us.
…desire alone is the root of all suffering.It is the cause of repeated births and deaths.It is the obstacle in the way of liberation.
In order realize the Self,you have to scale the highest peak of renunciation.
