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 BABAThere is no higher or lower goal. There is only one goal, Self-Realization.
More Meher Baba Quotes
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Those who constantly want something will never feel happy.
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Every good work has to face opposition, and the reaction of the opposition offered always helps the work.
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I only know one yoga: ‘You Go.’
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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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Who says God has created this world? We have created it by our own imagination.
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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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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.
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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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God alone is real, and all else is illusion.
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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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Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others.
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A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.
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The entire life of the personal ego is continually in the grip of wanting, i. e., an attempt to seek fulfilment of desires through things that change and vanish. But there can be no real fulfilment through the transient things
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External silence helps to achieve inner Silence.
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