Meher Baba
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.Collection: Fullness Of Life
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.Collection: Real
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.Collection: Spiritual
Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving.Collection: Giving Not Receiving
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.Collection: Soul
Who says God has created this world? We have created it by our own imagination.Collection: Imagination
Those who constantly want something will never feel happy.Collection: Want Something
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.Collection: Simple
Nothing is the shadow of Everything.Collection: Shadow
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.Collection: Christian
Love can attain what the intellect cannot fathom.Collection: Intellect
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.Collection: Understanding
God has to be temporarily cruel in order to be permanently kind.Collection: Order
If we suffer in the sufferings of others and feel happy in the happiness of others, we are loving God.Collection: Happiness
God alone is real, and all else is illusion.Collection: Real
Art when inspired with love leads to higher realms, and that art will open for you the inner life.Collection: Art
There is only one question. And once you know the answer to that question there are no more to ask.Collection: Answers
The best course for My lover is to remember Me wholeheartedly as much as one can…and leave the rest to Me.Collection: Lovers
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.Collection: Attitude
Only in the human form is it possible for life to attain its final goal, which is to realize the all-pervading and infinite Divinity.Collection: Goal
Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others.Collection: Happiness
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.Collection: Self
When love is not at its height, it always creates a mess.Collection: Love Is
I have come not to teach but to awaken.Collection: Teach
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.Collection: Mean
Form is solidified energy, energy is an expression of the mind, the mind is the covered mirror of Eternity, and Eternity is the Truth, which has thrown off the mask of the mind.Collection: Mirrors
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 outCollection: Love
...the more a person becomes spiritually minded or advances towards God, the more tolerant he becomes and the less differentiation he sees.Collection: Diversity
Love is the reflection of God's unity in the world of duality. It constitutes the entire significance of creation.Collection: Reflection
God and love are identical, and one who has divine love has received God.Collection: Love
As you all become more intimate with Me, with opportunities to come closer to Me, all that is good and bad within you comes out in sparks, as it were . . . all the impressions of the past, the accumulations of past sanskaras - of all illusory things, which includes both good and bad - come out. My proximity, the intimacy with Me, just changes that mass of sanskaras, and sometimes you find sparks of good and bad flying out.Collection: Past
Love is nothing if it is not spontaneous. It cannot be a conclusion of reasoning.Collection: Love
When the bubble of ignorance bursts the self realizes its oneness with the indivisible Self. Words that proceed from the Source of Truth have real meaning. But when men speakthese words as their own, the words become meaningless.Collection: Real
Life becomes meaningful and all activities are purposeful only on the basis of faith in the enduring reality.Collection: Life
God alone is real, nothing matters but love for God.Collection: Real
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.Collection: Love
The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done even whilst attending to our worldly duties.Collection: Life
Live more and more in the Present, which is ever beautiful and stretches away beyond the limits of the past and the future.Collection: Beautiful
Art is one of the sources through which the soul expresses itself and inspires others. But to express art thoroughly, one must have the inner emotions opened thoroughly.Collection: Art
Through endless time God's greatest gift is continuously given in silence. But whenmankind becomes completely deaf to the thunder of His Silence God incarnates as Man.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Men
I love artists, because through art one can express oneself beautifully.Collection: Art
When I break My Silence, the impact of My Love will be universal and all life in creation will know, feel and receive of it. It will help every individual to break himself free from his own bondage in his own way. I am the Divine Beloved who loves you more than you can ever love yourself. The breaking of My Silence will help you to help yourself in knowing your real Self.Collection: Real
Love and forgiveness is not for the faint-hearted.Collection: Love
Being is Dying by Loving.Collection: Dying
The life of the spirit is the expression of Infinity and, as such, knows no artificial limits. True spirituality is not to be mistaken for an exclusive enthusiasm for some fad. It is not concerned with any "ism." When people seek spirituality apart from life, as if it had nothing to do with the material world, their search is futile.Collection: Expression
Art is a divine thing. It can only be rightly expressed if opposed, to bring out its inner beauty that lies behind.Collection: Art
When a person tells others "Be good," he conveys to his hearers the feeling that he is good and they are not.Collection: Feelings
What will the present chaos lead to? How will it all end? It can only end in one way. Mankind will be sick of it all.Collection: Sick