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All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged.

Meher Baba

Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness.
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Borrowed Consider Greatness Strength Weakness
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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Beautiful Ignorance Indivisible Limit Live Man Real
If we suffer in the sufferings of others and feel happy in the happiness of others, we are loving God.
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God Happiness Loving Suffering Vegetarian
According to the law that governs the universe,all sufferings are your labor of love to unveil your real self.
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Govern Grief Labor Pain Real Self Universe Unveil
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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Art Expression Inspire One Soul Source
Irrespective of doubts and convictions, and for the Infinite Love I bear for one and all, I continue to come as the Avatar, to be judged time and again by humanity in its ignorance, in order to help man distinguish the Real from the false.
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Conviction Doubt Ignorance Infinite Irrespective Man Real
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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Depth Ocean Plunge Shore Surface
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
Don’t Worry Be Happy
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Being Happiness Happy Morning Shine Smile
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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Dissipation Fullness Good Life Psychic Psychics Worry
Love and understanding never condemn but always seek to help and encourage.
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Condemn Encourage Helping Love True Understanding
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.
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Ego Engrossed Forget Everything Lost Much Object
Feelings and emotions are only the creation of mind and energy. Love is the creation of the soul.
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Emotion Energy Feeling Love Soul
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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Boss Difficult Fuss Humility Render Service Spirituality World
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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Delight Giving Glorify Happiness Learn Receiving
Love God and find him within – the only treasure worth finding.
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Finding God Love Treasure
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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Already Attain Difficult Impossible Impossibly Unions
Love is the reflection of God’s unity in the world of duality. It constitutes the entire significance of creation.
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Constitute Creation Diversity Duality God Love Reflection Unity
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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Charity Easy Forgiveness Giving Good Money Plenty
What will the present chaos lead to? How will it all end? It can only end in one way. Mankind will be sick of it all.
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Chaos End Making Present Sick Way
There is nothing that love cannot achieve, and there is nothing that love cannot sacrifice.
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Achieve Believe Impossible Love Sacrifice
I love artists, because through art one can express oneself beautifully.
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Art Artist Beautiful Express Oneself
Light can penetrate any amount of darkness but no amount of darkness can penetrate light.
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Amount Dark Darkness Light Penetrate
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.
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Harness Intellect Person Point Spiritual View Wisdom
Whether men soar to outer space or dive to the bottom of the deepest ocean they will find themselves as they are, unchanged, because they will not have forgotten themselves nor remembered to exercise the charity of forgiveness.
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Deepest Exercise Man Ocean Outer Space
Through endless time God’s greatest gift is continuously given in silence. But when mankind becomes completely deaf to the thunder of His Silence God incarnates as Man.
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Continuously Endless Time God Greatest Incarnate Man Mankind Silence
Art when inspired with love leads to higher realms, and that art will open for you the inner life.
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Art Inner Inspired Lead Life Open Realm

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