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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.

Meher Baba

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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Convey Feeling Good Goodness Hear Person Share
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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Deepest Exercise Man Ocean Outer Space
…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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Differentiation Diversity More Person Spiritual Tolerant
I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play.
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Activity Each Everybody One Play Role
If I were to ask the famous Henry Ford to come over here and do what I tell him to do, would he do it? Never! But if I were to make a thousand-year-old corpse come alive before his eyes, he would jump at the chance to stay here and wash my clothes!
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Ask Clothe Explain Eye Famous Name Year
Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them.
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Difficulty Giving Greatness Opportunity Overcoming
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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Ego Engrossed Forget Everything Lost Much Object
Nothing is the shadow of Everything.
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Everything Nothing Shadow
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.
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Dissipation Fullness Good Life Psychic Psychics Worry
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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Conviction Doubt Ignorance Infinite Irrespective Man Real
God has to be temporarily cruel in order to be permanently kind.
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Cruel Kind Order Permanent Temporarily
Life becomes meaningful and all activities are purposeful only on the basis of faith in the enduring reality.
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Activity Enduring Faith Life Meaningful Purposeful Reality
Being is Dying by Loving.
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Dying Express Loving Path
God alone is real, nothing matters but love for God.
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Alone God Love Matter Real
Desire nothing except desirelessness. Hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes. Want nothing and you will have everything.
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Above Desire Desirelessness Nothing Rise Want
Joke I read somewhere: They say that God is the innermost dweller of all. Well I hope He likes enchiladas – cause that’s what He’s getting! Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving.
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Cause Delight Dweller Enchiladas Giving Innermost Joke Oneness Receiving

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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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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