Meher Baba on ego
Meher Baba113 quotes“When 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.”
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God and love are identical, and one who has divine love has received God.
Meher BabaMeher Baba Who says God has created this world? We have created it by our own imagination.
Meher BabaMeher Baba Feelings and emotions are only the creation of mind and energy. Love is the creation of the soul.
Meher BabaMeher Baba Worry has never done anyone any good, and it is very much worse than mere dissipation of psychic energy, for it substantially curtails the joy and fullness of life.
Meher BabaMeher Baba External silence helps to achieve inner Silence.
Meher BabaMeher Baba The intellect of most persons is harnessed by innumerable wants. From the spiritual point of view, such a life is the lowest type of human existence. The highest type of human existence is free from all wants and is characterised by sufficiency or contentment.
Meher BabaMeher Baba God cannot be explained… God can only be lived.
Meher BabaMeher Baba No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.
Meher BabaMeher Baba There is nothing that love cannot achieve, and there is nothing that love cannot sacrifice.
Meher BabaMeher Baba Pure love is matchless in majesty; it has no parallel in power and there is no darkness it cannot dispel.
Meher BabaMeher Baba If we suffer in the sufferings of others and feel happy in the happiness of others, we are loving God.
Meher BabaMeher Baba What will the present chaos lead to? How will it all end? It can only end in one way. Mankind will be sick of it all.
Meher BabaMeher Baba God alone is real, nothing matters but love for God.
Meher BabaMeher Baba When the mind soars in pursuit of the things conceived in space…it pursues emptiness; but when man dives deep within himself, he experiences the fullness of existence.
Meher BabaMeher Baba 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.
Meher BabaMeher Baba 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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