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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 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
The seeker asking, Where is God? Is really God saying, Where indeed is the seeker!
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Asking God Indeed Say Seeker
Those who constantly want something will never feel happy.
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Constant Diversity Feel Happy Something Wanted
There is no such thing as evil. Only relative degrees of good.
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Degree Degrees Emotion Evil Good Relative
God alone is real, and all else is illusion.
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All Alone Else God Illusion Real
I am also a painter. I paint the hearts of people with colors of spirituality.
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Color Heart Painter People Spiritual
Being is Dying by Loving.
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Dying Express Loving Path
When nothing upsets you, you are at the beginning of the path. When you desire nothing, you are halfway on the path; when nothing becomes everything, you are perfected.
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Beginning Desire Halfway Nothing Path Upset
Worry has never done anyone any good, and it is very much worse than mere dissipation of psychic energy, for it substantially curtails the joy and fullness of life.
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Dissipation Fullness Good Life Psychic Psychics Worry
Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation.
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Aspiration Awakening Beginning Desperate Divine Giving Rise Spiritual
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
Things that are real are given and received in silence.
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Given Real Silence
The objective of spiritual advancement is not so much ‘works’ but the quality of life free from ego-consciousness.
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Advancement Consciousness Ego Free Life Quality Spiritual
The finding of God is the coming to one’s own self.
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Finding One Own Philosophy Self
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
God and love are identical, and one who has divine love has received God.
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Divine God Identical Love
This whole universe, with all its vastness, grandeur and beauty, is nothing but sheer imagination. In spite of so many discoveries, researches and scientific knowledge, the creation remains a great unsolved riddle.
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Beauty Discovery Grandeur Imagination Research Vastness
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
External silence helps to achieve inner Silence.
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Achieve External Helping Inner Silence
True love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak; it is born of strength and understanding.
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Best Faint Friend Game Strength Understanding Weak
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
To love God in the most practical way is to love our fellow beings. If we feel for others in the same way as we feel for our own dear ones, we love God.
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Dear Fellow God Love Ones Practical Way
I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play.
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Activity Each Everybody One Play Role
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
Illusion throughout is illusion. There is no end to it, just as there is no end to imagination.
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End Illusion Imagination Throughout
I only know one yoga: ‘You Go.’
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Fit Go Health Know Tou Yoga

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