Love and understanding never condemn but always seek to help and encourage.
MEHER BABAIf 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.
More Meher Baba Quotes
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The objective of spiritual advancement is not so much ‘works’ but the quality of life free from ego-consciousness.
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External silence helps to achieve inner Silence.
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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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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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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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There is only one question. And once you know the answer to that question there are no more to ask.
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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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Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them.
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True love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak; it is born of strength and understanding.
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Light can penetrate any amount of darkness but no amount of darkness can penetrate light.
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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 we suffer in the sufferings of others and feel happy in the happiness of others, we are loving God.
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Live a sincere life; be natural, and be honest with yourself.
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When the bubble of ignorance bursts the self realizes its oneness with the indivisible Self. Words that proceed from the Source of Truth have real meaning. But when men speakthese words as their own, the words become meaningless.
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Those who constantly want something will never feel happy.
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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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It’s a divine art to be cheerful.
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One of the most difficult things to learn is to render service without bossing, without making a fuss about it, and without any consciousness of high and low. In the world of spirituality, humility counts at least as much as utility.
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God alone is real, and all else is illusion.
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…the more a person becomes spiritually minded or advances towards God, the more tolerant he becomes and the less differentiation he sees.
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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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Life becomes meaningful and all activities are purposeful only on the basis of faith in the enduring reality.
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Feelings and emotions are only the creation of mind and energy. Love is the creation of the soul.
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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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There is nothing that love cannot achieve, and there is nothing that love cannot sacrifice.
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One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.
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