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.
MEHER BABAWorry 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.
More Meher Baba Quotes
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According to the law that governs the universe,all sufferings are your labor of love to unveil your real self.
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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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There is no greater romance in life than this adventure in realization.
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One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.
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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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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 a divine thing. It can only be rightly expressed if opposed, to bring out its inner beauty that lies behind.
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This whole universe, with all its vastness, grandeur and beauty, is nothing but sheer imagination. In spite of so many discoveries, researches and scientific knowledge, the creation remains a great unsolved riddle.
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Light can penetrate any amount of darkness but no amount of darkness can penetrate light.
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God alone is real, nothing matters but love for God.
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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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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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Live more and more in the Present, which is ever beautiful and stretches away beyond the limits of the past and the future.
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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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