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.
MEHER BABAA mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.
More Meher Baba Quotes
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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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The book that I shall make people read is the book of the heart, which holds the key to the mystery of life
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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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Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others.
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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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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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I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play.
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Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness.
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There is nothing that love cannot achieve, and there is nothing that love cannot sacrifice.
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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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If I were to ask the famous Henry Ford to come over here and do what I tell him to do, would he do it? Never! But if I were to make a thousand-year-old corpse come alive before his eyes, he would jump at the chance to stay here and wash my clothes!
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Art is a divine thing. It can only be rightly expressed if opposed, to bring out its inner beauty that lies behind.
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What I want from my lovers is real, unadulterated love, and from my genuine workers I expect real work done.
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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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God has to be temporarily cruel in order to be permanently kind.
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