God cannot be explained… God can only be lived.
MEHER BABAHappiest is he who expects no happiness from others.
More Meher Baba Quotes
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Love is nothing if it is not spontaneous. It cannot be a conclusion of reasoning.
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Truth is simple, but Illusion makes it infinitely intricate. The person is rare who possesses an insatiable longing for Truth; the rest allow Illusion to bind them ever more and more.
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There is no such thing as evil. Only relative degrees of good.
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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.)
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If God can be found through the medium of any drug, God is not worthy of being God.
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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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Desire nothing except desirelessness. Hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes. Want nothing and you will have everything.
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I love artists, because through art one can express oneself beautifully.
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The objective of spiritual advancement is not so much ‘works’ but the quality of life free from ego-consciousness.
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Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness.
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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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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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The finding of God is the coming to one’s own self.
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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!
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The seeker asking, Where is God? Is really God saying, Where indeed is the seeker!
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It’s a divine art to be cheerful.
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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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Those who constantly want something will never feel happy.
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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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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.
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Love can attain what the intellect cannot fathom.
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Life becomes meaningful and all activities are purposeful only on the basis of faith in the enduring reality.
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You must make bold experiments in life!
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The book that I shall make people read is the book of the heart, which holds the key to the mystery of life
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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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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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