Meher Baba Quotations | Page 2

Life becomes meaningful and all activities are purposeful only on the basis of faith in the enduring reality.

There is no greater romance in life than this adventure in realization.

If we suffer in the sufferings of others and feel happy in the happiness of others, we are loving God.

The essence of spirituality does not consist in a specialised or narrow interest in some imagined part of life, but in a certain enlightened attitude to all the various situations which obtain in life. It covers and includes the whole of life. All the material things of this world can be made subservient to the divine game, and when they are thus subordained they become auxiliary to the self-affirmation of the spirit.

I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play...

All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged.

God is Infinite and His Shadow is also infinite. The Shadow of God is the Infinite Space that accommodates the infinite Gross Sphere which, with its occurrences of millions of universes, within and without the ranges of men's knowledge, is the Creation that issued from the Point of Finiteness in the infinite Existence that is God.

Form is solidified energy; energy is an expression of mind; mind is the covered mirror of Eternity; and Eternity is Truth that has thrown off the mask of mind.

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.

The finding of God is the coming to one's own self.

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

Let not the dirt of the sanskaras of your thoughts and deeds touch you, by surrendering every thought and act at the feet of your Guru. As a laundryman washes and cleans clothes, in the same way, I remove all the dirt which has stuck to you through your thoughts and actions.

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.

All religions are equal to me. And all castes and creeds are dear to me. But though I appreciate all `isms,' religions and political parties for the many good things they seek to achieve, I do not and cannot belong to any of these `isms,' religions or political parties, for the Absolute Truth, while equally including them, transcends all of them and leaves no room for separative divisions which are all equally false.

When a person tells others 'Be good,' he conveys to his hearers the feeling that he is good and they are not.

Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others.

LOVE is essentially self-communicative: those who do not have it catch it from those who have it.... No amount of rites, rituals, ceremonies, worship, meditation, penance and remembrance can produce love in themselves. None of these is necessarily a sign of love. On the contrary, those who sigh loudly and weep and wail have yet to experience love. Love sets on fire the one who finds it. At the same time it seals his lips so that no smoke comes out

I am also a painter. I paint the hearts of people with colors of spirituality.

There is only one question. And once you know the answer to that question there are no more to ask.

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.

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.

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 .

Just think you are the greatest. Where's the harm in thinking like that? It is not for pride you do it, but for bringing the best out of you. There is nothing wrong.

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.

God has to be temporarily cruel in order to be permanently kind.

Light can penetrate any amount of darkness but no amount of darkness can penetrate light.

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!

It's a divine art to be cheerful.

You must make bold experiments in life!

I only know one yoga: 'You Go.'

There is no such thing as evil. Only relative degrees of good.

Nothing is the shadow of Everything.

It is not so much that you are within the cosmos but that the cosmos is within you.

People wait for the big moment, the great event, and forget that happiness comes from building steadily on the small daily things of life. People wait for that special moment to express love and forget that love springs from thoughtfulness practised every day. People wait, but waiting is future and NOW is always the time.

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.

I am the Avatar of this Age!