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.
MEHER BABAGod and love are identical, and one who has divine love has received God.
More Meher Baba Quotes
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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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I love artists, because through art one can express oneself beautifully.
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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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Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others.
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The happiness of God-realization is self-sustained, eternally fresh and unfailing, boundless and indescribable. And it is for this happiness that the world has sprung into existence.
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There is no greater romance in life than this adventure in realization.
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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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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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Every good work has to face opposition, and the reaction of the opposition offered always helps the work.
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I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play.
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There is no such thing as evil. Only relative degrees of good.
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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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Joke I read somewhere: They say that God is the innermost dweller of all. Well I hope He likes enchiladas – cause that’s what He’s getting! Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving.
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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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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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Forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it.)
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God has to be temporarily cruel in order to be permanently kind.
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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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If we suffer in the sufferings of others and feel happy in the happiness of others, we are loving God.
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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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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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According to the law that governs the universe,all sufferings are your labor of love to unveil your real self.
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These false answers such as, I am stone, I am bird, I am animal, I am man, I am woman, I am great, I am small are, in turn, received, tested and discarded until the Question arrives at the right and Final Answer, I AM GOD.
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The seeker asking, Where is God? Is really God saying, Where indeed is the seeker!
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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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Nothing is the shadow of Everything.
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