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.
MEHER BABAAccording to the law that governs the universe,all sufferings are your labor of love to unveil your real 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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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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According to the law that governs the universe,all sufferings are your labor of love to unveil your real self.
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One of the most difficult things to learn is to render service without bossing, without making a fuss about it, and without any consciousness of high and low. In the world of spirituality, humility counts at least as much as utility.
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I am also an artist. I have the whole world as my canvas. I paint souls.
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Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving.
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Seek a reality deeper than the changing forms.
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Love and forgiveness is not for the faint-hearted.
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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.
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God has to be temporarily cruel in order to be permanently kind.
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Live more and more in the Present, which is ever beautiful and stretches away beyond the limits of the past and the future.
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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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There is no greater romance in life than this adventure in realization.
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The best course for My lover is to remember Me wholeheartedly as much as one can…and leave the rest to Me.
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External silence helps to achieve inner Silence.
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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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If you are convinced of God’s existence then it rests with you to seek Him, to see Him and to realize Him. Do not search for God outside of you. God can only be found within you, for His only abode is the heart.
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Irrespective of doubts and convictions, and for the Infinite Love I bear for one and all, I continue to come as the Avatar, to be judged time and again by humanity in its ignorance, in order to help man distinguish the Real from the false.
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If we suffer in the sufferings of others and feel happy in the happiness of others, we are loving God.
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If we understand and feel that the greatest act of devotion and worship to God is not to harm any of His beings, we are loving God.
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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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To attain union is so impossibly difficult because it is impossible to become what you already are! Union is nothing other than knowledge of oneself as the Only One.
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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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Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation.
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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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There is nothing that love cannot achieve, and there is nothing that love cannot sacrifice.
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