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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 Baba

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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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.
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Art Expression Inspire One Soul Source
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
It’s a divine art to be cheerful.
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Art Cheerful Divine God Spiritual
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
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
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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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
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
Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving.
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Delight Diversity Giving Glorify Love Receiving
When a person tells others “Be good,” he conveys to his hearers the feeling that he is good and they are not.
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No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.
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I love artists, because through art one can express oneself beautifully.
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Art Artist Beautiful Express Oneself
God has to be temporarily cruel in order to be permanently kind.
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Cruel Kind Order Permanent Temporarily
The objective of spiritual advancement is not so much ‘works’ but the quality of life free from ego-consciousness.
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Advancement Consciousness Ego Free Life Quality Spiritual
Love and understanding never condemn but always seek to help and encourage.
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Condemn Encourage Helping Love True Understanding

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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