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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.

Meher Baba

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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Harness Intellect Person Point Spiritual View Wisdom
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
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
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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Ego Engrossed Forget Everything Lost Much Object
Nothing is the shadow of Everything.
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Everything Nothing Shadow
I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play.
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Activity Each Everybody One Play Role
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
It’s a divine art to be cheerful.
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Art Cheerful Divine God Spiritual
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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Continually Desire Ego Entire Fulfilment Grip Real Wanting
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.
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Everybody People Play Role Spiritual
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
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
But such a tiny and trivial thing as an umbrella can deprive you of the sight of such a stupendous fact as the sun.
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Deprive Fact Perspective Sight Stupendous Tiny Umbrella
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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Easy God Mean Realization Shortest Special Way
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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Fleeting Satisfaction Unfulfilled Want Worry
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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Conviction Doubt Ignorance Infinite Irrespective Man Real

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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