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Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them.

Meher Baba

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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Drug Experience For Mirage Reality Water
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 love artists, because through art one can express oneself beautifully.
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Art Artist Beautiful Express Oneself
Seek a reality deeper than the changing forms.
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Changing Deeper Form Inspirational Reality Seek
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
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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Everlasting Except Experience God Infinite Real Silence Unobserved
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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Fear Ignorance Man Pain Pleasure Striving
God alone is real, nothing matters but love for God.
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Alone God Love Matter Real
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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Already Attain Difficult Impossible Impossibly Unions
All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged.
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Come Goesm Remain Illusion Soul Unchanged
One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.
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Beyond Bliss Desirelessness Mind Spiritual
What I want from my lovers is real, unadulterated love, and from my genuine workers I expect real work done.
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Done Expert Genuine Real Unadulterated Wanted Work
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
Those who constantly want something will never feel happy.
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Constant Diversity Feel Happy Something Wanted
Every good work has to face opposition, and the reaction of the opposition offered always helps the work.
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Face Good Helping Opposition Reaction Work
Things that are real are given and received in silence.
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Given Real Silence
You must make bold experiments in life!
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Bold Experiment Innovation Life Make Risk
God has to be temporarily cruel in order to be permanently kind.
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Cruel Kind Order Permanent Temporarily
Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving.
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Delight Diversity Giving Glorify Love Receiving
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
Desire nothing except desirelessness. Hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes. Want nothing and you will have everything.
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Above Desire Desirelessness Nothing Rise Want
The seeker asking, Where is God? Is really God saying, Where indeed is the seeker!
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Asking God Indeed Say Seeker
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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Heart Lead Life Mean Normal Spiritual Worldly
God and love are identical, and one who has divine love has received God.
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Divine God Identical Love
If God can be found through the medium of any drug, God is not worthy of being God.
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Drug Found God Medium Worthy
Whether men soar to outer space or dive to the bottom of the deepest ocean they will find themselves as they are, unchanged, because they will not have forgotten themselves nor remembered to exercise the charity of forgiveness.
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Deepest Exercise Man Ocean Outer Space
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

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