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!
MEHER BABASometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness.
More Meher Baba Quotes
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The finding of God is the coming to one’s own self.
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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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To ask for a purely intellectual proof of the existence of God is like asking for the privilege of being able to see with your ears!
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Those who constantly want something will never feel happy.
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I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play, but in the spiritual arena there are people who are even closer to me than that.
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Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others.
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Since male and female incarnations are equally necessary for self-knowledge, it is not right to look upon one as being more important than the other.
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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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Through endless time God’s greatest gift is continuously given in silence. But when mankind becomes completely deaf to the thunder of His Silence God incarnates as Man.
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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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Art is a divine thing. It can only be rightly expressed if opposed, to bring out its inner beauty that lies behind.
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Those who speculate from the shore about the ocean shall know only its surface, but those who would know the depths of the ocean must be willing to plunge into it.
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Nothing is the shadow of Everything.
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Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness.
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There is no higher or lower goal. There is only one goal, Self-Realization.
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