“A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live?”
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“Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.”
Source: The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942), p. 472
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