When a person tells others “Be good,” he conveys to his hearers the feeling that he is good and they are not.
MEHER BABAFeelings and emotions are only the creation of mind and energy. Love is the creation of the soul.
More Meher Baba Quotes
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God cannot be explained… God can only be lived.
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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.
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Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them.
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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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The best way to cleanse the heart and prepare for the stilling of the mind is to lead a normal, worldly life. Living in the midst of your day-to-day duties, responsibilities, likes, dislikes, etc., will help you. All these become the very means for the purification of your heart.
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Love is the reflection of God’s unity in the world of duality. It constitutes the entire significance of creation.
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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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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.
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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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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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There is no difference in the realization of the Truth either by a Muslim, Hindu, Zoroastrian, or a Christian. The difference is only in words and terms. Truth is not the monopoly of a particular race or religion.
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One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.
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God has been everlastingly working in Silence, unobserved, unheard, except by those who experience His Infinite Silence. Those who have got the courage and wisdom to surrender themselves to a Perfect Master are the recipients of His Grace.
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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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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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