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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.

Meher Baba

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.
MEHER BABA

Depth Ocean Plunge Shore Surface
There is only one question. And once you know the answer to that question there are no more to ask.
MEHER BABA

Answers Ask Know More Query Question
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.
MEHER BABA

Drug Experience For Mirage Reality Water
Pure love is matchless in majesty; it has no parallel in power and there is no darkness it cannot dispel.
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Darkness Love Matchless Parallel Power Pure
God cannot be explained… God can only be lived.
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Explain God Live Spirit Spirituality
There is no such thing as evil. Only relative degrees of good.
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Degree Degrees Emotion Evil Good Relative
All that lives is striving for happiness; yet a thousand and one pains and fears attend upon every pleasure which man seeks through the ignorance of exclusiveness.
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Fear Ignorance Man Pain Pleasure Striving
God has to be temporarily cruel in order to be permanently kind.
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Cruel Kind Order Permanent Temporarily
Illusion throughout is illusion. There is no end to it, just as there is no end to imagination.
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End Illusion Imagination Throughout
Those who constantly want something will never feel happy.
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Constant Diversity Feel Happy Something Wanted
To ask for a purely intellectual proof of the existence of God is like asking for the privilege of being able to see with your ears!
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Asking Ear Existence God Intellectual Privilege
Desire nothing except desirelessness. Hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes. Want nothing and you will have everything.
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Above Desire Desirelessness Nothing Rise Want
Long for what is real. You will then have no time for worrying over what may never happen.
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Happen Long Real Worry
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.
MEHER BABA

Harness Intellect Person Point Spiritual View Wisdom
Every good work has to face opposition, and the reaction of the opposition offered always helps the work.
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Face Good Helping Opposition Reaction Work
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
MEHER BABA

Continually Desire Ego Entire Fulfilment Grip Real Wanting

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