The experiences which drugs induce are as far removed from Reality as is a mirage, from water. No matter how much you pursue the mirage, you will never quench your thirst, and the search for Truth through drugs must end in disillusionment.
MEHER BABAWhen you paint, you forget everything except your object. When you are too much engrossed in it, you are lost in it. And when you are lost in it, your ego diminishes. And when the ego diminishes, love infinite appears.
More Meher Baba Quotes
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The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done even whilst attending to our worldly duties.
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Life becomes meaningful and all activities are purposeful only on the basis of faith in the enduring reality.
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The best way to cleanse the heart and prepare for the stilling of the mind is to lead a normal, worldly life. Living in the midst of your day-to-day duties, responsibilities, likes, dislikes, etc., will help you. All these become the very means for the purification of your heart.
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I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play.
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Only in the human form is it possible for life to attain its final goal, which is to realize the all-pervading and infinite Divinity.
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I only know one yoga: ‘You Go.’
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The satisfaction derived from the fleeting things of life is not lasting; and our wants remain unfulfilled. There is thus a general sense of dissatisfaction accompanied by all kinds of worries.
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I am also an artist. I have the whole world as my canvas. I paint souls.
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God has to be temporarily cruel in order to be permanently kind.
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External silence helps to achieve inner Silence.
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If you are convinced of God’s existence then it rests with you to seek Him, to see Him and to realize Him. Do not search for God outside of you. God can only be found within you, for His only abode is the heart.
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Whether men soar to outer space or dive to the bottom of the deepest ocean they will find themselves as they are, unchanged, because they will not have forgotten themselves nor remembered to exercise the charity of forgiveness.
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Those who speculate from the shore about the ocean shall know only its surface, but those who would know the depths of the ocean must be willing to plunge into it.
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Live more and more in the Present, which is ever beautiful and stretches away beyond the limits of the past and the future.
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There is no difference in the realization of the Truth either by a Muslim, Hindu, Zoroastrian, or a Christian. The difference is only in words and terms. Truth is not the monopoly of a particular race or religion.
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Who says God has created this world? We have created it by our own imagination.
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Nothing is the shadow of Everything.
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…the more a person becomes spiritually minded or advances towards God, the more tolerant he becomes and the less differentiation he sees.
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Being is Dying by Loving.
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Love God and find him within – the only treasure worth finding.
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The finding of God is the coming to one’s own self.
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When a person tells others “Be good,” he conveys to his hearers the feeling that he is good and they are not.
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Illusion throughout is illusion. There is no end to it, just as there is no end to imagination.
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The book that I shall make people read is the book of the heart, which holds the key to the mystery of life
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This whole universe, with all its vastness, grandeur and beauty, is nothing but sheer imagination. In spite of so many discoveries, researches and scientific knowledge, the creation remains a great unsolved riddle.
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To attain union is so impossibly difficult because it is impossible to become what you already are! Union is nothing other than knowledge of oneself as the Only One.
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