True love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak; it is born of strength and understanding.
MEHER BABATo 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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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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Every good work has to face opposition, and the reaction of the opposition offered always helps the work.
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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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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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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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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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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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When you paint, you forget everything except your object. When you are too much engrossed in it, you are lost in it. And when you are lost in it, your ego diminishes. And when the ego diminishes, love infinite appears.
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Love God and find him within – the only treasure worth finding.
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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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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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Live a sincere life; be natural, and be honest with yourself.
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There is nothing that love cannot achieve, and there is nothing that love cannot sacrifice.
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Art when inspired with love leads to higher realms, and that art will open for you the inner life.
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