When you paint, you forget everything except your object. When you are too much engrossed in it, you are lost in it. And when you are lost in it, your ego diminishes. And when the ego diminishes, love infinite appears.
MEHER BABAIllusion throughout is illusion. There is no end to it, just as there is no end to imagination.
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These false answers such as, I am stone, I am bird, I am animal, I am man, I am woman, I am great, I am small are, in turn, received, tested and discarded until the Question arrives at the right and Final Answer, I AM GOD.
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A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.
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There is no higher or lower goal. There is only one goal, Self-Realization.
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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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God cannot be explained… God can only be lived.
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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.
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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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Art is one of the sources through which the soul expresses itself and inspires others. But to express art thoroughly, one must have the inner emotions opened thoroughly.
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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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Feelings and emotions are only the creation of mind and energy. Love is the creation of the soul.
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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.
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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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Light can penetrate any amount of darkness but no amount of darkness can penetrate light.
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Seek a reality deeper than the changing forms.
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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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