God has to be temporarily cruel in order to be permanently kind.
MEHER BABADesire nothing except desirelessness. Hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes. Want nothing and you will have everything.
More Meher Baba Quotes
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Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others.
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The finding of God is the coming to one’s own self.
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Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving.
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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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When the mind soars in pursuit of the things conceived in space…it pursues emptiness; but when man dives deep within himself, he experiences the fullness of existence.
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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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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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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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I only know one yoga: ‘You Go.’
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Light can penetrate any amount of darkness but no amount of darkness can penetrate light.
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I have come not to teach but to awaken.
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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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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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External silence helps to achieve inner Silence.
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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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