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..
Contentment is the only watchword that can insure us a safe passage through adverse circumstances.God is good.God does all. Therefore,He can do nothing but good. This is what all religions teach; abide by it and peace of mind will naturally follow.
The path of devotion is the best,as it is the most natural.Be devoted to God who is inside you…The temples outside are mere reminders of the real inner Temple.
Steadiness in devotion means that though you may be busy with many things,still your mind is always turned towards God.It should be like the needle of a compass;the needle may swing a little to this side or that,but it always has a tendency to point back to north.
Work and live for the Lord and worship Him with your whole soul,and thus attain salvation even in this life.
God is more intelligent then any of us.He knows what is necessary for you and where to keep you.If you resent His dispensation,you really resent His infinite love and grace.Obedience is divine;disobedience is satanic.
Do not care if you slip occasionally.To err is human.Do not lose heart.Walk firmly onward.No man can hope to get through the slimy path of the world unscathed.And it is rank foolishness to sit down in the midst of the mire for fear of falling in the attempt to get across.
If we cannot get on altogether without help,then why not ask the Lord himself.Why go to others?
When man’s vanity is puffed up by name,fame,importance,and wealth,he has on hope to reach Thee,O Lord.Thou comest to the poor,the lowly,to those who have nothing in this world.Come to me,O Lord!All I have is Thine;it was never mine.Thou art all my wealth.
weep and pray to God thus,’O gracious One!I am weak and helpless.Forgive the sins which I have committed in this[life]or in previos lives,knowingly or unknowingly.Remit the results of my evil actions.’If you can sincerely weep,with a contrite heart,He will surely paedon your sins.
In order to realize God you must worship Him with your whole heart;and the man who has realized God is perfectly happy.Even if he should go to hell,he would be in heaven,for he lives in God,and where God is,that is heaven.
