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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.
Meher BabaMeher Baba These false answers such as, I am stone, I am bird, I am animal, I am man, I am woman, I am great, I am small are, in turn, received, tested and discarded until the Question arrives at the right and Final Answer, I AM GOD.
Meher BabaMeher Baba According to the law that governs the universe,all sufferings are your labor of love to unveil your real self.
Meher BabaMeher 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 BabaMeher Baba 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.
Meher BabaMeher Baba 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.
Meher BabaMeher Baba Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others.
Meher BabaMeher Baba Love God and find him within – the only treasure worth finding.
Meher BabaMeher Baba Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation.
Meher BabaMeher Baba Nothing is the shadow of Everything.
Meher BabaMeher Baba It is not so much that you are within the cosmos but that the cosmos is within you.
Meher BabaMeher Baba Every good work has to face opposition, and the reaction of the opposition offered always helps the work.
Meher BabaMeher Baba Art is a divine thing. It can only be rightly expressed if opposed, to bring out its inner beauty that lies behind.
Meher BabaMeher Baba When love is not at its height, it always creates a mess.
Meher BabaMeher Baba There is no higher or lower goal. There is only one goal, Self-Realization.
Meher BabaMeher Baba The experiences which drugs induce are as far removed from Reality as is a mirage, from water. No matter how much you pursue the mirage, you will never quench your thirst, and the search for Truth through drugs must end in disillusionment.
Meher BabaMeher Baba
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Don’t compare her to sunshine and roses when she’s clearly orchids and moonlight.
Melody LeeMelody Lee Oh moonlight, continue to shine on me. As you light up the sky, maybe some peace will come to me.
ShamaShama Stop counting the reasons why they should be loved and start counting the many reasons why you are the one who is worth loving.
Ayaka HaseAyaka Hase Sure, there are oceans and seas and magnificent things – but none of them are you.
L.T. PhoenixL.T. Phoenix I wish you the wildest of dreams.
Kate WestKate West The way you look at me, The way you make me feel whole, The way you make me feel safe, thats poetry to me.
Barbara GianquittoBarbara Gianquitto You cannot leave and have me too I cannot exist in two places at once-when you ask if we can still be friends.
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Don’t worry and fret, faint-hearted, The chances have just begun For the best jobs haven’t been started, The best work hasn’t been done.
Berton BraleyBerton Braley No wonder I got blank stares at “rabbi got faint at sight of blood.”
Ben RosenfieldBen Rosenfield Illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost nothing at the center of time, its vibrations slowed to echoes in vast canyons, its intensity reduced to the faint glow of fireflies.
Alan LightmanAlan Lightman One morning, I poured the apple juice into the specimen tube. The nurse held it up and said, ‘It’s a little cloudy.’ I took the tube from her and said, ‘Let me run it through again,’ and drank it. The nurse fainted.
Alan KingAlan King This hill though high I covent ascend; The difficulty will not me offend; For I perceive the way of life lies here. Come, pluck up, heart; let’s neither faint nor fear.
John BunyanJohn Bunyan True love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak; it is born of strength and understanding.
Meher BabaMeher Baba The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.
Ramana MaharshiRamana Maharshi Fortune never helps the fainthearted.
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