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 BABATrue love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak; it is born of strength and understanding.
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It is not so much that you are within the cosmos but that the cosmos is within you.
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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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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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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
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Worry is the product of feverish imagination working under the stimulus of desires… It is a necessary resultant of attachment to the past or to the anticipated future, and it always persists in some form or other until the mind is completely detached from everything.
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Love is nothing if it is not spontaneous. It cannot be a conclusion of reasoning.
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I love artists, because through art one can express oneself beautifully.
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All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged.
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I am also a painter. I paint the hearts of people with colors of spirituality.
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Those who constantly want something will never feel happy.
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The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done even whilst attending to our worldly duties.
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There is no greater romance in life than this adventure in realization.
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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 way to cleanse the heart and prepare for the stilling of the mind is to lead a normal, worldly life. Living in the midst of your day-to-day duties, responsibilities, likes, dislikes, etc., will help you. All these become the very means for the purification of your heart.
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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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