The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done even whilst attending to our worldly duties.
MEHER BABAThose 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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Light can penetrate any amount of darkness but no amount of darkness can penetrate light.
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Love can attain what the intellect cannot fathom.
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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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God has to be temporarily cruel in order to be permanently kind.
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Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others.
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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 only one question. And once you know the answer to that question there are no more to ask.
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Love God and find him within – the only treasure worth finding.
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Worry 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.
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External silence helps to achieve inner Silence.
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God and love are identical, and one who has divine love has received God.
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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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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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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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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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