God has to be temporarily cruel in order to be permanently kind.
MEHER BABADifficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them.
More Meher Baba Quotes
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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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True love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak; it is born of strength and understanding.
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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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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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The satisfaction derived from the fleeting things of life is not lasting; and our wants remain unfulfilled. There is thus a general sense of dissatisfaction accompanied by all kinds of worries.
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Form is solidified energy, energy is an expression of the mind, the mind is the covered mirror of Eternity, and Eternity is the Truth, which has thrown off the mask of the mind.
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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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To attain union is so impossibly difficult because it is impossible to become what you already are! Union is nothing other than knowledge of oneself as the Only One.
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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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Long for what is real. You will then have no time for worrying over what may never happen.
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Why is it so difficult to find God? Because you’re looking for something you’ve never lost.
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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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Love is the reflection of God’s unity in the world of duality. It constitutes the entire significance of creation.
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It’s a divine art to be cheerful.
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I have come not to teach but to awaken.
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