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It is not so much that you are within the cosmos but that the cosmos is within you.

Meher Baba

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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Depth Ocean Plunge Shore Surface
God and love are identical, and one who has divine love has received God.
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Divine God Identical Love
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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Fleeting Satisfaction Unfulfilled Want Worry
I only know one yoga: ‘You Go.’
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Fit Go Health Know Tou Yoga
Live a sincere life; be natural, and be honest with yourself.
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Honest Life Natural Sincerity
Long for what is real. You will then have no time for worrying over what may never happen.
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Happen Long Real Worry
The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done even whilst attending to our worldly duties.
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Attend Done Duty God Life Purpose Realize Wordly
Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness.
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Borrowed Consider Greatness Strength Weakness
Illusion throughout is illusion. There is no end to it, just as there is no end to imagination.
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End Illusion Imagination Throughout
God has been everlastingly working in Silence, unobserved, unheard, except by those who experience His Infinite Silence. Those who have got the courage and wisdom to surrender themselves to a Perfect Master are the recipients of His Grace.
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Everlasting Except Experience God Infinite Real Silence Unobserved
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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Ego Essential Order Scrub Suffering
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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Beginning Desire Halfway Nothing Path Upset
Worry has never done anyone any good, and it is very much worse than mere dissipation of psychic energy, for it substantially curtails the joy and fullness of life.
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Dissipation Fullness Good Life Psychic Psychics Worry
Why is it so difficult to find God? Because you’re looking for something you’ve never lost.
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Difficult God Lost never Something
To love God in the most practical way is to love our fellow beings. If we feel for others in the same way as we feel for our own dear ones, we love God.
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Dear Fellow God Love Ones Practical Way
God has to be temporarily cruel in order to be permanently kind.
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Cruel Kind Order Permanent Temporarily
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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Important Incarnation Knowledge Look Male Self Upon
It’s a divine art to be cheerful.
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Art Cheerful Divine God Spiritual
I am the Avatar of this Age!
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Age Avatar Generation Time
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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Come Experience God Illusion Important Realization Soul Unchanged
There is no higher or lower goal. There is only one goal, Self-Realization.
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Goal Higher Lower Realization Self
The finding of God is the coming to one’s own self.
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Finding One Own Philosophy Self
Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others. Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. So learn to love and give, and not to expect anything from others.
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Delight Giving Glorify Happiness Learn Receiving
I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play.
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Activity Each Everybody One Play Role
According to the law that governs the universe,all sufferings are your labor of love to unveil your real self.
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Govern Grief Labor Pain Real Self Universe Unveil
What I want from my lovers is real, unadulterated love, and from my genuine workers I expect real work done.
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Done Expert Genuine Real Unadulterated Wanted Work
Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation.
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Aspiration Awakening Beginning Desperate Divine Giving Rise Spiritual

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