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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.

Meher Baba

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
God cannot be explained… God can only be lived.
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Explain God Live Spirit Spirituality
I have come not to teach but to awaken.
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Awaken Come Learn Teach
Love is the reflection of God’s unity in the world of duality. It constitutes the entire significance of creation.
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Constitute Creation Diversity Duality God Love Reflection Unity
God and love are identical, and one who has divine love has received God.
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Divine God Identical Love
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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Continuously Endless Time God Greatest Incarnate Man Mankind Silence
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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Charity Easy Forgiveness Giving Good Money Plenty
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
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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Ego Essential Order Scrub Suffering
Feelings and emotions are only the creation of mind and energy. Love is the creation of the soul.
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Emotion Energy Feeling Love Soul
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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Convey Feeling Good Goodness Hear Person Share
Since male and female incarnations are equally necessary for self-knowledge, it is not right to look upon one as being more important than the other.
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Important Incarnation Knowledge Look Male Self Upon
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
All that lives is striving for happiness; yet a thousand and one pains and fears attend upon every pleasure which man seeks through the ignorance of exclusiveness.
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Fear Ignorance Man Pain Pleasure Striving
There is no greater romance in life than this adventure in realization.
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Adventure Greater Impossible Realization Romance
Life becomes meaningful and all activities are purposeful only on the basis of faith in the enduring reality.
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Activity Enduring Faith Life Meaningful Purposeful Reality

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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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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