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Irrespective of doubts and convictions, and for the Infinite Love I bear for one and all, I continue to come as the Avatar, to be judged time and again by humanity in its ignorance, in order to help man distinguish the Real from the false.

Meher Baba

Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others.
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Expect Giving Happiest Happiness Receiving
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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Depth Ocean Plunge Shore Surface
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
I am also a painter. I paint the hearts of people with colors of spirituality.
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Color Heart Painter People Spiritual
It is not so much that you are within the cosmos but that the cosmos is within you.
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Cosmo Much Within You
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
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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Conceived Deep Dive Emptiness Man Mind Pursue Soar Space
All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged.
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Come Goesm Remain Illusion Soul Unchanged
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
To 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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Dear Fellow God Love Ones Practical Way
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
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
The book that I shall make people read is the book of the heart, which holds the key to the mystery of life
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Book Heart Hold Key Mystery People Read
God alone is real, and all else is illusion.
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All Alone Else God Illusion Real
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
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
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
Who says God has created this world? We have created it by our own imagination.
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Created God Imagination Religion World
No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.
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Amount Inspirational Meditation Prayer Spiritual
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
One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.
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Beyond Bliss Desirelessness Mind Spiritual
God cannot be explained… God can only be lived.
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Explain God Live Spirit Spirituality
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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Delight Giving Glorify Happiness Learn Receiving
External silence helps to achieve inner Silence.
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Achieve External Helping Inner Silence
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
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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Bringing Feeling Greatest Harm Honor Pride Thinking

Irrespective of doubts and convictions, and for the Infinite Love I bear for one and all, I continue to come as the Avatar, to be judged time and again by humanity in its ignorance, in order to help man distinguish the Real from the false.

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Irrespective of doubts and convictions, and for the Infinite Love I bear for one and all, I continue to come as the Avatar, to be judged time and again by humanity in its ignorance, in order to help man distinguish the Real from the false.

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