Why is it so difficult to find God? Because you’re looking for something you’ve never lost.
MEHER BABAGod 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.
More Meher Baba Quotes
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I have come not to teach but to awaken.
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I am the Avatar of this Age!
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There is no difference in the realization of the Truth either by a Muslim, Hindu, Zoroastrian, or a Christian. The difference is only in words and terms. Truth is not the monopoly of a particular race or religion.
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Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them.
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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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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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Don’t Worry Be Happy
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Light can penetrate any amount of darkness but no amount of darkness can penetrate light.
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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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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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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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Through endless time God’s greatest gift is continuously given in silence. But when mankind becomes completely deaf to the thunder of His Silence God incarnates as Man.
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When the bubble of ignorance bursts the self realizes its oneness with the indivisible Self. Words that proceed from the Source of Truth have real meaning. But when men speakthese words as their own, the words become meaningless.
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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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Joke I read somewhere: They say that God is the innermost dweller of all. Well I hope He likes enchiladas – cause that’s what He’s getting! Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving.
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There is only one question. And once you know the answer to that question there are no more to ask.
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The finding of God is the coming to one’s own self.
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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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What I want from my lovers is real, unadulterated love, and from my genuine workers I expect real work done.
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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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God alone is real, and all else is illusion.
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Only in the human form is it possible for life to attain its final goal, which is to realize the all-pervading and infinite Divinity.
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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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Feelings and emotions are only the creation of mind and energy. Love is the creation of the soul.
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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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The seeker asking, Where is God? Is really God saying, Where indeed is the seeker!
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