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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.

Meher Baba

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.
MEHER BABA

Important Incarnation Knowledge Look Male Self Upon
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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Continuously Endless Time God Greatest Incarnate Man Mankind Silence
Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving.
MEHER BABA

Delight Diversity Giving Glorify Love Receiving
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.
MEHER BABA

Beginning Desire Halfway Nothing Path Upset
The best course for My lover is to remember Me wholeheartedly as much as one can…and leave the rest to Me.
MEHER BABA

Course Lover Remember Rest Wholeheartedly
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

Heart Lead Life Mean Normal Spiritual Worldly
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.
MEHER BABA

Ego Essential Order Scrub Suffering
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.
MEHER BABA

Deepest Exercise Man Ocean Outer Space
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 BABA

Ask Clothe Explain Eye Famous Name Year
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!
MEHER BABA

Asking Ear Existence God Intellectual Privilege
Forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it.)
MEHER BABA

Charity Easy Forgiveness Giving Good Money Plenty
Art when inspired with love leads to higher realms, and that art will open for you the inner life.
MEHER BABA

Art Inner Inspired Lead Life Open Realm
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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Conceived Deep Dive Emptiness Man Mind Pursue Soar Space
Love can attain what the intellect cannot fathom.
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Attain Fathom Intellect Love Realize
When the bubble of ignorance bursts the self realizes its oneness with the indivisible Self. Words that proceed from the Source of Truth have real meaning. But when men speakthese words as their own, the words become meaningless.
MEHER BABA

Beautiful Ignorance Indivisible Limit Live Man Real
The objective of spiritual advancement is not so much ‘works’ but the quality of life free from ego-consciousness.
MEHER BABA

Advancement Consciousness Ego Free Life Quality Spiritual

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