God has to be temporarily cruel in order to be permanently kind.
MEHER BABADon’t Worry Be Happy
More Meher Baba Quotes
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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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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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I am also an artist. I have the whole world as my canvas. I paint souls.
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To love God in the most practical way is to love our fellow beings. If we feel for others in the same way as we feel for our own dear ones, we love God.
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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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True love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak; it is born of strength and understanding.
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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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There is no higher or lower goal. There is only one goal, Self-Realization.
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I only know one yoga: ‘You Go.’
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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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Who says God has created this world? We have created it by our own imagination.
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There is no such thing as evil. Only relative degrees of good.
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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 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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There is nothing that love cannot achieve, and there is nothing that love cannot sacrifice.
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