The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done even whilst attending to our worldly duties.
MEHER BABAAccording to the law that governs the universe,all sufferings are your labor of love to unveil your real self.
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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.
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Who says God has created this world? We have created it by our own imagination.
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All that lives is striving for happiness; yet a thousand and one pains and fears attend upon every pleasure which man seeks through the ignorance of exclusiveness.
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Love and understanding never condemn but always seek to help and encourage.
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There is nothing that love cannot achieve, and there is nothing that love cannot sacrifice.
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These false answers such as, I am stone, I am bird, I am animal, I am man, I am woman, I am great, I am small are, in turn, received, tested and discarded until the Question arrives at the right and Final Answer, I AM GOD.
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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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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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What I want from my lovers is real, unadulterated love, and from my genuine workers I expect real work done.
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The easiest and shortest way to God-realization is through the contact of a Sadguru, which means keeping the company or sahavas of such a Master, obeying him and serving him. This remedy is like a special express train which carries you straight to your destination.
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Desire nothing except desirelessness. Hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes. Want nothing and you will have everything.
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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.
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But such a tiny and trivial thing as an umbrella can deprive you of the sight of such a stupendous fact as the sun.
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Live a sincere life; be natural, and be honest with yourself.
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Nothing is the shadow of Everything.
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The happiness of God-realization is self-sustained, eternally fresh and unfailing, boundless and indescribable. And it is for this happiness that the world has sprung into existence.
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The best course for My lover is to remember Me wholeheartedly as much as one can…and leave the rest to Me.
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There is no greater romance in life than this adventure in realization.
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Suffering is essential for the elimination of the ego, just as it was necessary for you to scrub and scrub in order to wash the stain from my coat.
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External silence helps to achieve inner Silence.
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It is not so much that you are within the cosmos but that the cosmos is within you.
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I only know one yoga: ‘You Go.’
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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.
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Irrespective of doubts and convictions, and for the Infinite Love I bear for one and all, I continue to come as the Avatar, to be judged time and again by humanity in its ignorance, in order to help man distinguish the Real from the false.
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Pure love is matchless in majesty; it has no parallel in power and there is no darkness it cannot dispel.
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