God has to be temporarily cruel in order to be permanently kind.
MEHER BABATo 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!
More Meher Baba Quotes
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There is no greater romance in life than this adventure in realization.
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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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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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Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation.
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Illusion throughout is illusion. There is no end to it, just as there is no end to imagination.
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I am also an artist. I have the whole world as my canvas. I paint souls.
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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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The best way to cleanse the heart and prepare for the stilling of the mind is to lead a normal, worldly life. Living in the midst of your day-to-day duties, responsibilities, likes, dislikes, etc., will help you. All these become the very means for the purification of your heart.
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The entire life of the personal ego is continually in the grip of wanting, i. e., an attempt to seek fulfilment of desires through things that change and vanish. But there can be no real fulfilment through the transient things
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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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I have come not to teach but to awaken.
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God and love are identical, and one who has divine love has received God.
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Just think you are the greatest. Where’s the harm in thinking like that? It is not for pride you do it, but for bringing the best out of you. There is nothing wrong.
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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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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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