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.
MEHER BABAWhen nothing upsets you, you are at the beginning of the path. When you desire nothing, you are halfway on the path; when nothing becomes everything, you are perfected.
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Why is it so difficult to find God? Because you’re looking for something you’ve never lost.
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Who says God has created this world? We have created it by our own imagination.
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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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The finding of God is the coming to one’s own self.
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Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them.
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One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.
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You must make bold experiments in life!
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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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Pure love is matchless in majesty; it has no parallel in power and there is no darkness it cannot dispel.
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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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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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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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Love and forgiveness is not for the faint-hearted.
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If you are convinced of God’s existence then it rests with you to seek Him, to see Him and to realize Him. Do not search for God outside of you. God can only be found within you, for His only abode is the heart.
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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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If God can be found through the medium of any drug, God is not worthy of being God.
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The best course for My lover is to remember Me wholeheartedly as much as one can…and leave the rest to Me.
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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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Feelings and emotions are only the creation of mind and energy. Love is the creation of the soul.
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Only in the human form is it possible for life to attain its final goal, which is to realize the all-pervading and infinite Divinity.
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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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All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged.
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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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When nothing upsets you, you are at the beginning of the path. When you desire nothing, you are halfway on the path; when nothing becomes everything, you are perfected.
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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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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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