Life becomes meaningful and all activities are purposeful only on the basis of faith in the enduring reality.
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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Pure love is matchless in majesty; it has no parallel in power and there is no darkness it cannot dispel.
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God has been everlastingly working in Silence, unobserved, unheard, except by those who experience His Infinite Silence. Those who have got the courage and wisdom to surrender themselves to a Perfect Master are the recipients of His Grace.
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I am also an artist. I have the whole world as my canvas. I paint souls.
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Desire nothing except desirelessness. Hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes. Want nothing and you will have everything.
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God alone is real, and all else is illusion.
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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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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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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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God has to be temporarily cruel in order to be permanently kind.
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Love can attain what the intellect cannot fathom.
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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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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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Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation.
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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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Every good work has to face opposition, and the reaction of the opposition offered always helps the work.
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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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All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged. What is meant by God-realization is to actually experience this important thing that the soul is eternal.
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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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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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Feelings and emotions are only the creation of mind and energy. Love is the creation of the soul.
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Don’t Worry Be Happy
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Those who constantly want something will never feel happy.
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There is only one question. And once you know the answer to that question there are no more to ask.
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I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play, but in the spiritual arena there are people who are even closer to me than that.
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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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