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The objective of spiritual advancement is not so much ‘works’ but the quality of life free from ego-consciousness.

Meher Baba

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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Art Beauty Divine Inner Lying Opposed Rightly
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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Convince Existence Found God Heart Realizing
The easiest and shortest way to God-realization is through the contact of a Sadguru, which means keeping the company or sahavas of such a Master, obeying him and serving him. This remedy is like a special express train which carries you straight to your destination.
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Easy God Mean Realization Shortest Special Way
God and love are identical, and one who has divine love has received God.
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Divine God Identical Love
…the more a person becomes spiritually minded or advances towards God, the more tolerant he becomes and the less differentiation he sees.
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Differentiation Diversity More Person Spiritual Tolerant
Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them.
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Difficulty Giving Greatness Opportunity Overcoming
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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Everlasting Except Experience God Infinite Real Silence Unobserved
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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Convey Feeling Good Goodness Hear Person Share
Being is Dying by Loving.
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Dying Express Loving Path
But such a tiny and trivial thing as an umbrella can deprive you of the sight of such a stupendous fact as the sun.
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Deprive Fact Perspective Sight Stupendous Tiny Umbrella
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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Heart Lead Life Mean Normal Spiritual Worldly
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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Delight Giving Glorify Happiness Learn Receiving
To ask for a purely intellectual proof of the existence of God is like asking for the privilege of being able to see with your ears!
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Asking Ear Existence God Intellectual Privilege
God alone is real, nothing matters but love for God.
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Alone God Love Matter Real
The seeker asking, Where is God? Is really God saying, Where indeed is the seeker!
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Asking God Indeed Say Seeker
God has to be temporarily cruel in order to be permanently kind.
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Cruel Kind Order Permanent Temporarily
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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Deepest Exercise Man Ocean Outer Space
There is no greater romance in life than this adventure in realization.
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Adventure Greater Impossible Realization Romance
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.
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Fear Ignorance Man Pain Pleasure Striving
When love is not at its height, it always creates a mess.
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Always Create Height Love Mess
The experiences which drugs induce are as far removed from Reality as is a mirage, from water. No matter how much you pursue the mirage, you will never quench your thirst, and the search for Truth through drugs must end in disillusionment.
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Drug Experience For Mirage Reality Water
Since male and female incarnations are equally necessary for self-knowledge, it is not right to look upon one as being more important than the other.
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Important Incarnation Knowledge Look Male Self Upon
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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Boss Difficult Fuss Humility Render Service Spirituality World
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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Harness Intellect Person Point Spiritual View Wisdom
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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Continuously Endless Time God Greatest Incarnate Man Mankind Silence
Light can penetrate any amount of darkness but no amount of darkness can penetrate light.
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Amount Dark Darkness Light Penetrate
Life becomes meaningful and all activities are purposeful only on the basis of faith in the enduring reality.
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Activity Enduring Faith Life Meaningful Purposeful Reality

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