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
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.
More Meher Baba Quotes
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The seeker asking, Where is God? Is really God saying, Where indeed is the seeker!
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Those who constantly want something will never feel happy.
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There is no such thing as evil. Only relative degrees of good.
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God alone is real, and all else is illusion.
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I am also a painter. I paint the hearts of people with colors of spirituality.
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Being is Dying by Loving.
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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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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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Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation.
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It is not so much that you are within the cosmos but that the cosmos is within you.
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Things that are real are given and received in silence.
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The objective of spiritual advancement is not so much ‘works’ but the quality of life free from ego-consciousness.
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The finding of God is the coming to one’s own self.
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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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God and love are identical, and one who has divine love has received God.
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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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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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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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External silence helps to achieve inner Silence.
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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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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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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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I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play.
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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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Illusion throughout is illusion. There is no end to it, just as there is no end to imagination.
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I only know one yoga: ‘You Go.’
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