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I have come not to teach but to awaken.

Meher Baba

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Meher Baba
Age: 74 †
Born: 1894
Born: February 25
Died: 1969
Died: January 31
Theologian
Poona
Awaken
Teach
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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 entire life of the personal ego is continually in the grip of wanting, i. e., an attempt to seek fulfilment of desires through things that change and vanish. But there can be no real fulfilment through the transient things
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The objective of spiritual advancement is not so much 'works' but the quality of life free from ego-consciousness.
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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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God cannot be explained... God can only be lived.
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I love artists, because through art one can express oneself beautifully.
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When love is not at its height, it always creates a mess.
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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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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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God and love are identical, and one who has divine love has received God.
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One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.
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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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If God can be found through the medium of any drug, God is not worthy of being God.
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Love God and find him within - the only treasure worth finding.
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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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Love and forgiveness is not for the faint-hearted.
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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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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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God has to be temporarily cruel in order to be permanently kind.
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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.
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