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.
MEHER BABAWhat will the present chaos lead to? How will it all end? It can only end in one way. Mankind will be sick of it all.
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External silence helps to achieve inner Silence.
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When the mind soars in pursuit of the things conceived in space…it pursues emptiness; but when man dives deep within himself, he experiences the fullness of existence.
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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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Every good work has to face opposition, and the reaction of the opposition offered always helps the work.
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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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Why is it so difficult to find God? Because you’re looking for something you’ve never lost.
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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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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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There is only one question. And once you know the answer to that question there are no more to ask.
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The seeker asking, Where is God? Is really God saying, Where indeed is the seeker!
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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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Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them.
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The satisfaction derived from the fleeting things of life is not lasting; and our wants remain unfulfilled. There is thus a general sense of dissatisfaction accompanied by all kinds of worries.
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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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Who says God has created this world? We have created it by our own imagination.
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You must make bold experiments in life!
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To attain union is so impossibly difficult because it is impossible to become what you already are! Union is nothing other than knowledge of oneself as the Only One.
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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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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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Light can penetrate any amount of darkness but no amount of darkness can penetrate light.
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When love is not at its height, it always creates a mess.
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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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If God can be found through the medium of any drug, God is not worthy of being God.
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Only in the human form is it possible for life to attain its final goal, which is to realize the all-pervading and infinite Divinity.
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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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