The sum and substance of the whole matter is that a man must love God, must be restless for Him. It doesn't matter whether you believe in God with form or God without form. You may or may not believe that God incarnates Himself as man. But you will realize Him if you have that yearning. Then He himself will let you know what He is like. If you must be mad, why should you be mad for the things of the world?
If you must be mad, be mad for God alone.

Source: One Little Angel/ramakrishna.

 

The Vedantist says, "I am He." Brahman is real and the world illusory.
Even the "I" is illusory. Only the Supreme Brahman exists.

Source: One Little Angel/ramakrishna.

 

Do you know what I see? I see Him as all. Men and other creatures appear to me only as hollow forms, moving their heads and hands and feet, but within is the Lord Himself.

Source: Poet Seers/ramakrishna.

Different people call on [God] by different names: some as Allah, some as God, and others as Krishna, Siva, and Brahman. It is like the water in a lake. Some drink it at one place and call it 'jal', others at another place and call it 'pani', and still others at a third place and call it 'water'. The Hindus call it 'jal', the Christians 'water', and the Moslems 'pani'. But it is one and the same thing.

Source: Poet Seers/ramakrishna.