The objective of spiritual advancement is not so much ‘works’ but the quality of life free from ego-consciousness.
MEHER BABAGod alone is real, nothing matters but love for God.
More Meher Baba Quotes
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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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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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God has to be temporarily cruel in order to be permanently kind.
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I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play.
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Long for what is real. You will then have no time for worrying over what may never happen.
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If we suffer in the sufferings of others and feel happy in the happiness of others, we are loving God.
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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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Those who constantly want something will never feel happy.
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Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them.
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The book that I shall make people read is the book of the heart, which holds the key to the mystery of life
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Suffering is essential for the elimination of the ego, just as it was necessary for you to scrub and scrub in order to wash the stain from my coat.
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Love and forgiveness is not for the faint-hearted.
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Love God and find him within – the only treasure worth finding.
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Pure love is matchless in majesty; it has no parallel in power and there is no darkness it cannot dispel.
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Live a sincere life; be natural, and be honest with yourself.
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When a person tells others “Be good,” he conveys to his hearers the feeling that he is good and they are not.
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God and love are identical, and one who has divine love has received God.
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If I were to ask the famous Henry Ford to come over here and do what I tell him to do, would he do it? Never! But if I were to make a thousand-year-old corpse come alive before his eyes, he would jump at the chance to stay here and wash my clothes!
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There is no higher or lower goal. There is only one goal, Self-Realization.
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Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others.
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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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Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation.
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I am also an artist. I have the whole world as my canvas. I paint souls.
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God alone is real, nothing matters but love for God.
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God alone is real, and all else is illusion.
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When love is not at its height, it always creates a mess.
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