Things that are real are given and received in silence.
MEHER BABAThe 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.
More Meher Baba Quotes
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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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It’s a divine art to be cheerful.
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God alone is real, nothing matters but love for God.
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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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Illusion throughout is illusion. There is no end to it, just as there is no end to imagination.
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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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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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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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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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Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation.
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When nothing upsets you, you are at the beginning of the path. When you desire nothing, you are halfway on the path; when nothing becomes everything, you are perfected.
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I am also a painter. I paint the hearts of people with colors of spirituality.
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Don’t Worry Be Happy
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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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Love is nothing if it is not spontaneous. It cannot be a conclusion of reasoning.
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I am the Avatar of this Age!
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All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged. What is meant by God-realization is to actually experience this important thing that the soul is eternal.
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There is nothing that love cannot achieve, and there is nothing that love cannot sacrifice.
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Who says God has created this world? We have created it by our own imagination.
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The objective of spiritual advancement is not so much ‘works’ but the quality of life free from ego-consciousness.
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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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…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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Worry is the product of feverish imagination working under the stimulus of desires… It is a necessary resultant of attachment to the past or to the anticipated future, and it always persists in some form or other until the mind is completely detached from everything.
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Art is one of the sources through which the soul expresses itself and inspires others. But to express art thoroughly, one must have the inner emotions opened thoroughly.
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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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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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