I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play, but in the spiritual arena there are people who are even closer to me than that.
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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Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation.
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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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Life becomes meaningful and all activities are purposeful only on the basis of faith in the enduring reality.
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Love is the reflection of God’s unity in the world of duality. It constitutes the entire significance of creation.
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The easiest and shortest way to God-realization is through the contact of a Sadguru, which means keeping the company or sahavas of such a Master, obeying him and serving him. This remedy is like a special express train which carries you straight to your destination.
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The experiences which drugs induce are as far removed from Reality as is a mirage, from water. No matter how much you pursue the mirage, you will never quench your thirst, and the search for Truth through drugs must end in disillusionment.
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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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I have come not to teach but to awaken.
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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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The seeker asking, Where is God? Is really God saying, Where indeed is the seeker!
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God 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.
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The happiness of God-realization is self-sustained, eternally fresh and unfailing, boundless and indescribable. And it is for this happiness that the world has sprung into existence.
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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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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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I am also a painter. I paint the hearts of people with colors of spirituality.
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God has to be temporarily cruel in order to be permanently kind.
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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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True love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak; it is born of strength and understanding.
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It’s a divine art to be cheerful.
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Love and understanding never condemn but always seek to help and encourage.
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When love is not at its height, it always creates a mess.
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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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The finding of God is the coming to one’s own self.
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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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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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…the more a person becomes spiritually minded or advances towards God, the more tolerant he becomes and the less differentiation he sees.
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