Meher Baba famous quotes

There are very few things in the mind which eat up as much energy as worry. It is one of the most difficult things not to worry about anything. Worry is experienced when things go wrong, but in relation to past happenings it is idle merely to wish that they might have been otherwise. The frozen past is what it is, and no amount of worrying is going to make it other than what it has been. But the limited ego-mind identifies itself with its past, gets entangled with it and keeps alive the pangs of frustrated desires.
-- Meher Baba

#Past #Worry #Ego

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.
-- Meher Baba

#Psychics #Worry #Joy

Who says God has created this world? We have created it by our own imagination.
-- Meher Baba

#Imagination #Religion #World

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.
-- Meher Baba

#Giving #Charity #Easy

But such a tiny and trivial thing as an umbrella can deprive you of the sight of such a stupendous fact as the sun.
-- Meher Baba

#Sight #Perspective #Tiny

Worry is the product of feverish imagination working under the stimulus of desires... It is a necessary resultant of attachment to the past or to the anticipated future, and it always persists in some form or other until the mind is completely detached from everything.
-- Meher Baba

#Past #Attachment #Imagination

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.
-- Meher Baba

#Reality #Water #Drug

No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.
-- Meher Baba

#Prayer #Helping Others #Diversity

Live a sincere life; be natural, and be honest with yourself.
-- Meher Baba

#Honest #Life Is #Sincerity

The experiences are so innumerable and varied, that the journey appears to be interminable and the Destination is ever out of sight. But the wonder of it is, when at last you reach your Destination you find that you had never travelled at all! It was a journey from here to Here.
-- Meher Baba

#Journey #Sight #Lasts

According to the law that governs the universe,all sufferings are your labor of love to unveil your real self.
-- Meher Baba

#Pain #Real #Grief

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.
-- Meher Baba

#Spiritual #Heart #Mean

A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.
-- Meher Baba

#Sick #Mind #Sound

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.
-- Meher Baba

#Art #Inspire #Soul

Live more and more in the present, which is ever beautiful and stretches away beyond the limits of the past and the future.
-- Meher Baba

#Beautiful #Time #Past

The intellect of most persons is harnessed by innumerable wants. Such a life is, from the spiritual point of view the lowest type of human existence. The highest type of human existence is free from all wants; and it is characterised by sufficiency or contentment.
-- Meher Baba

#Spiritual #Wisdom #Views

Long for what is real. You will then have no time for worrying over what may never happen.
-- Meher Baba

#Real #Worry #Long

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.
-- Meher Baba

#Giving #Delight #Receiving

Divine love makes us true to ourselves and to others... Divine love is the solution to our difficulties and problems. It frees us from every kind of binding. It makes us speak truly, think truly, and act truly. It makes us feel one with the whole universe. Divine love purifies our hearts and glorifies our being.
-- Meher Baba

#Heart #Love Is #Thinking

In the spiritual life it is not necessary to have a complete map of the path in order to begin traveling. On the contrary, having such complete knowledge may actually hinder rather than help the onward march. The deeper secrets of spiritual life are unraveled to those who take risks and who make bold experiments with it. They are not meant for the idler who seeks guarantees at every step. 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.
-- Meher Baba

#Spiritual #Ocean #Order

I have come not to teach but to awaken.
-- Meher Baba

#Teach

Art is a divine thing. It can only be rightly expressed if opposed, to bring out its inner beauty that lies behind.
-- Meher Baba

#Art #Lying #Inner Beauty

Things that are real are given and received in silence.
-- Meher Baba

#Real #Silence #Given

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.
-- Meher Baba

#Christian #Differences #Race

Though the eye is small, the soul which sees through it is greater and vaster than all the things which it perceives. In fact, it is so great that it includes all objects, however large or numerous, within itself. For it is not so much that you are within the cosmos as that the cosmos is within you.
-- Meher Baba

#Eye #Diversity #Soul

...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....
-- Meher Baba

#Sick #Way #Chaos

When nothing upsets you, you are at the beginning of the path. When you desire nothing, you are halfway on the path; when nothing becomes everything, you are perfected.
-- Meher Baba

#Upset #Desire #Path

There is no higher or lower goal. There is only one goal, Self-Realization.
-- Meher Baba

#Self #Goal #Realization

Suffering is essential for the elimination of the ego, just as it was necessary for you to scrub and scrub in order to wash the stain from my coat.
-- Meher Baba

#Order #Ego #Suffering

Love can attain what the intellect cannot fathom.
-- Meher Baba

#Intellect #Fathom

Love has to spring spontaneously from within And it is no way amenable to any form of inner or outer force. Love and coercion can never go together; But though love cannot be forced on anyone, It can be awakened in him through love itself. Love is essentially self communicative; Those who do not have it catch it from those who have it. True love is unconquerable and irresistible, And it goes on gathering power and spreading itself, Until eventually it transforms everyone whom it touches....
-- Meher Baba

#Spring #Love You #Love Is

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.
-- Meher Baba

#Men #Space #Mind

Love God and find him within - the only treasure worth finding.
-- Meher Baba

#Treasure #God Love #Findings

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.
-- Meher Baba

#Love #Way #Dear

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
-- Meher Baba

#Real #Ego #Desire

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.
-- Meher Baba

#Ocean #Exercise #Men

The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done even whilst attending to our worldly duties...
-- Meher Baba

#Inspirational Life #Purpose #Done

When you paint, you forget everything except your object. When you are too much engrossed in it, you are lost in it. And when you are lost in it, your ego diminishes. And when the ego diminishes, love infinite appears.
-- Meher Baba

#Ego #Too Much #Forget

Avataric periods are like the spring-tide of creation. They bring a new release of power, a new awakening of consciousness, a new experience of life - not merely for a few, but for all. Qualities of energy and awareness, which had been used and enjoyed by only a few advanced souls, are made available for all humanity. Life, as a whole is stepped up to a higher level of consciousness, is geared to a new rate of energy. The transition from sensation to reason was one such step; the transition from reason to intuition will be another.
-- Meher Baba

#Spring #Soul #Humanity

One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.
-- Meher Baba

#Spiritual #Mind #Bliss

Art, when inspired with love, leads to higher realms. Love art and that art will open for you the inner life.
-- Meher Baba

#Art #Inspired #Higher

Things that are real are given and received in Silence. God has been everlastingly working in Silence, unobserved, unheard, except by those who experience His Infinite Silence.
-- Meher Baba

#Real #Silence #Infinite

To penetrate into the essence of all being and significance, and to release the fragrance of that inner attainment for the guidance of others, by expressing in the world of forms- truth, love, purity and beauty - this is the sole game which has any intrinsic and absolute worth. All other happenings, incidents and attainments can, in themselves, have no lasting importance.
-- Meher Baba

#Inspirational #Essence #Games

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.
-- Meher Baba

#Humility #World #Spirituality

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!
-- Meher Baba

#Eye #Years #Clothes