Meher Baba on awakening
Meher Baba113 quotes“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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Seek a reality deeper than the changing forms.
Meher BabaMeher Baba Form is solidified energy, energy is an expression of the mind, the mind is the covered mirror of Eternity, and Eternity is the Truth, which has thrown off the mask of the mind.
Meher BabaMeher Baba Love can attain what the intellect cannot fathom.
Meher BabaMeher Baba The objective of spiritual advancement is not so much ‘works’ but the quality of life free from ego-consciousness.
Meher BabaMeher Baba 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.
Meher BabaMeher Baba Desire nothing except desirelessness. Hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes. Want nothing and you will have everything.
Meher BabaMeher Baba A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.
Meher BabaMeher Baba I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play, but in the spiritual arena there are people who are even closer to me than that.
Meher BabaMeher Baba True love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak; it is born of strength and understanding.
Meher BabaMeher Baba There is no such thing as evil. Only relative degrees of good.
Meher BabaMeher Baba 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!
Meher BabaMeher Baba There is only one question. And once you know the answer to that question there are no more to ask.
Meher BabaMeher Baba When nothing upsets you, you are at the beginning of the path. When you desire nothing, you are halfway on the path; when nothing becomes everything, you are perfected.
Meher BabaMeher Baba Love and forgiveness is not for the faint-hearted.
Meher BabaMeher Baba The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done even whilst attending to our worldly duties.
Meher BabaMeher Baba 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 biggest barrier to awakening is the belief that it is something rare.
AdyashantiAdyashanti My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.
AdyashantiAdyashanti Now don’t think that awakening is the end. Awakening is the end of seeking, the end of the seeker, but it is the beginning of a life lived from your true nature.
AdyashantiAdyashanti The aim of my teaching is enlightenment, awakening from the dream state of separateness into the reality of the One. In short, my teaching is focused on realizing what you are.
AdyashantiAdyashanti Awakening to the truth is a deep realization of what you are as an experience. What is it that is listening? What is it that is feeling? Feel it. Sense it. Welcome it.
AdyashantiAdyashanti When you rest in quietness and your image of yourself fades, and your image of the world fades, and your ideas of others fade, what’s left? A brightness, a radiant emptiness that is simply what you are.
AdyashantiAdyashanti I feel there is a great spiritual awakening on the planet right now.
Agapi StassinopoulosAgapi Stassinopoulos I want to be awake. I want to choose kindness, live & let live. I want joy, gratitude, and peace today.
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