Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness.
MEHER BABALive more and more in the Present, which is ever beautiful and stretches away beyond the limits of the past and the future.
More Meher Baba Quotes
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Art when inspired with love leads to higher realms, and that art will open for you the inner life.
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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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Truth is simple, but Illusion makes it infinitely intricate. The person is rare who possesses an insatiable longing for Truth; the rest allow Illusion to bind them ever more and more.
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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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I am the Avatar of this Age!
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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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Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving.
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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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Life becomes meaningful and all activities are purposeful only on the basis of faith in the enduring reality.
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If we understand and feel that the greatest act of devotion and worship to God is not to harm any of His beings, we are loving God.
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Why is it so difficult to find God? Because you’re looking for something you’ve never lost.
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According to the law that governs the universe,all sufferings are your labor of love to unveil your real self.
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Those who constantly want something will never feel happy.
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I have come not to teach but to awaken.
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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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I am also an artist. I have the whole world as my canvas. I paint souls.
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Love is nothing if it is not spontaneous. It cannot be a conclusion of reasoning.
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Being is Dying by Loving.
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Light can penetrate any amount of darkness but no amount of darkness can penetrate light.
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What I want from my lovers is real, unadulterated love, and from my genuine workers I expect real work done.
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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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If you are convinced of God’s existence then it rests with you to seek Him, to see Him and to realize Him. Do not search for God outside of you. God can only be found within you, for His only abode is the heart.
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Art is a divine thing. It can only be rightly expressed if opposed, to bring out its inner beauty that lies behind.
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Every good work has to face opposition, and the reaction of the opposition offered always helps the work.
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The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done even whilst attending to our worldly duties.
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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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