I have come not to teach but to awaken.
MEHER BABALove is the reflection of God’s unity in the world of duality. It constitutes the entire significance of creation.
More Meher Baba Quotes
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God alone is real, and all else is illusion.
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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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Truth is simple, but Illusion makes it infinitely intricate. The person is rare who possesses an insatiable longing for Truth; the rest allow Illusion to bind them ever more and more.
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Long for what is real. You will then have no time for worrying over what may never happen.
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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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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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Light can penetrate any amount of darkness but no amount of darkness can penetrate light.
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Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them.
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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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There is nothing that love cannot achieve, and there is nothing that love cannot sacrifice.
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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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I am also a painter. I paint the hearts of people with colors of spirituality.
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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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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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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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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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The objective of spiritual advancement is not so much ‘works’ but the quality of life free from ego-consciousness.
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God and love are identical, and one who has divine love has received God.
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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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One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.
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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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External silence helps to achieve inner Silence.
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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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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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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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Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others. Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. So learn to love and give, and not to expect anything from others.
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