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Love can attain what the intellect cannot fathom.

Meher Baba

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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Ask Clothe Explain Eye Famous Name Year
Those who constantly want something will never feel happy.
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Constant Diversity Feel Happy Something Wanted
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
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
All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged.
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Come Goesm Remain Illusion Soul Unchanged
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
To love God in the most practical way is to love our fellow beings. If we feel for others in the same way as we feel for our own dear ones, we love God.
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Dear Fellow God Love Ones Practical Way
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
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
Every good work has to face opposition, and the reaction of the opposition offered always helps the work.
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Face Good Helping Opposition Reaction Work
God and love are identical, and one who has divine love has received God.
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Divine God Identical Love
If God can be found through the medium of any drug, God is not worthy of being God.
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Drug Found God Medium Worthy
Art when inspired with love leads to higher realms, and that art will open for you the inner life.
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Art Inner Inspired Lead Life Open Realm
Love God and find him within – the only treasure worth finding.
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Finding God Love Treasure
I am also an artist. I have the whole world as my canvas. I paint souls.
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Art Artist Canvas Paint Soul World
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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Attend Done Duty God Life Purpose Realize Wordly
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
Love and forgiveness is not for the faint-hearted.
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Faint Forgiveness Hearted Love
Forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it.)
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Charity Easy Forgiveness Giving Good Money Plenty
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
One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.
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Beyond Bliss Desirelessness Mind Spiritual
God has to be temporarily cruel in order to be permanently kind.
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Cruel Kind Order Permanent Temporarily
I am also a painter. I paint the hearts of people with colors of spirituality.
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Color Heart Painter People Spiritual
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
Why is it so difficult to find God? Because you’re looking for something you’ve never lost.
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Difficult God Lost never Something
Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness.
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Borrowed Consider Greatness Strength Weakness
Pure love is matchless in majesty; it has no parallel in power and there is no darkness it cannot dispel.
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Darkness Love Matchless Parallel Power Pure

Love can attain what the intellect cannot fathom.

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