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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

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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Illusion Insatiable Long Longing Possesses Simple Truth
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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Harness Intellect Person Point Spiritual View Wisdom
I am also a painter. I paint the hearts of people with colors of spirituality.
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Color Heart Painter People Spiritual
Love God and find him within – the only treasure worth finding.
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Finding God Love Treasure
To ask for a purely intellectual proof of the existence of God is like asking for the privilege of being able to see with your ears!
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Asking Ear Existence God Intellectual Privilege
True love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak; it is born of strength and understanding.
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Best Faint Friend Game Strength Understanding Weak
There is no such thing as evil. Only relative degrees of good.
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Degree Degrees Emotion Evil Good Relative
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
…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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Differentiation Diversity More Person Spiritual Tolerant
Being is Dying by Loving.
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Dying Express Loving Path
God cannot be explained… God can only be lived.
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Explain God Live Spirit Spirituality
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
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
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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Convince Existence Found God Heart Realizing
I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play, but in the spiritual arena there are people who are even closer to me than that.
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Everybody People Play Role Spiritual
If God can be found through the medium of any drug, God is not worthy of being God.
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Drug Found God Medium Worthy
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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Attachment Desire Feverish Imagination Past Product Stimulus Under Work
God alone is real, nothing matters but love for God.
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Alone God Love Matter Real
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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Devotion God Understand Understanding Vegetarian Worship
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
I have come not to teach but to awaken.
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Awaken Come Learn Teach
No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.
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Amount Inspirational Meditation Prayer Spiritual
This whole universe, with all its vastness, grandeur and beauty, is nothing but sheer imagination. In spite of so many discoveries, researches and scientific knowledge, the creation remains a great unsolved riddle.
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Beauty Discovery Grandeur Imagination Research Vastness
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
Don’t Worry Be Happy
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Being Happiness Happy Morning Shine Smile
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.
MEHER BABA

Everlasting Except Experience God Infinite Real Silence Unobserved
The easiest and shortest way to God-realization is through the contact of a Sadguru, which means keeping the company or sahavas of such a Master, obeying him and serving him. This remedy is like a special express train which carries you straight to your destination.
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Easy God Mean Realization Shortest Special Way

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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