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.
MEHER BABATruth is simple, but Illusion makes it infinitely intricate. The person is rare who possesses an insatiable longing for Truth; the rest allow Illusion to bind them ever more and more.
More Meher Baba Quotes
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It’s a divine art to be cheerful.
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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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I only know one yoga: ‘You Go.’
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Love and forgiveness is not for the faint-hearted.
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According to the law that governs the universe,all sufferings are your labor of love to unveil your real self.
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If God can be found through the medium of any drug, God is not worthy of being God.
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Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness.
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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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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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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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Just think you are the greatest. Where’s the harm in thinking like that? It is not for pride you do it, but for bringing the best out of you. There is nothing wrong.
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The entire life of the personal ego is continually in the grip of wanting, i. e., an attempt to seek fulfilment of desires through things that change and vanish. But there can be no real fulfilment through the transient things
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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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There is no such thing as evil. Only relative degrees of good.
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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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