Meher Baba Quotes

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

#2. 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. - Author: Meher Baba

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

#4. Desire nothing except desirelessness.
Hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes.
Want nothing and you will have everything. - Author: Meher Baba

#5. 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. - Author: Meher Baba

#6. Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation. - Author: Meher Baba

#7. 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. - Author: Meher Baba

#8. The objective of spiritual advancement is not so much 'works' but the quality of life free from ego-consciousness. - Author: Meher Baba

#9. Every good work has to face opposition, and the reaction of the opposition offered always helps the work. - Author: Meher Baba

#10. Being is Dying by Loving. - Author: Meher Baba

#11. 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. - Author: Meher Baba

#12. 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. - Author: Meher Baba

#13. A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine. - Author: Meher Baba

#14. These false answers such as, I am stone, I am bird, I am animal, I am man, I am woman, I am great, I am small are, in turn, received, tested and discarded until the Question arrives at the right and Final Answer, I AM GOD. - Author: Meher Baba

#15. 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! - Author: Meher Baba

#16. To attain union is so impossibly difficult because it is impossible to become what you already are! Union is nothing other than knowledge of oneself as the Only One. - Author: Meher Baba

#17. Mastery in Servitude - Author: Meher Baba

#18. 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. - Author: Meher Baba

#19. 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. - Author: Meher Baba

#20. 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. - Author: Meher Baba

#21. I am the Avatar of this Age! - Author: Meher Baba

#22. 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. - Author: Meher Baba

#23. I love artists, because through art one can express oneself beautifully. - Author: Meher Baba

#24. 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 - Author: Meher Baba

#25. 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. - Author: Meher Baba

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

#27. 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. - Author: Meher Baba

#28. God alone is real, nothing matters but love for God. - Author: Meher Baba

#29. What is politics but fraud? Whatever your own, honest, candid opinion might be, you have to act according to the creed of the party, [at times] against the voice of your conscience, and thus be dependent upon others for your actions, which is quite opposed to the fundamental principles of Truth. - Author: Meher Baba

#30. 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. - Author: Meher Baba

#31. When a person tells others 'Be good,' he conveys to his hearers the feeling that he is good and they are not. - Author: Meher Baba

#32. The book that I shall make people read
is the book of the heart,
which holds the key
to the mystery of life - Author: Meher Baba

#33. You must make bold experiments in life! - Author: Meher Baba

#34. Love is the reflection of God's unity in the world of duality. It constitutes the entire significance of creation. - Author: Meher Baba

#35. 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. - Author: Meher Baba

#36. True love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak; it is born of strength and understanding. - Author: Meher Baba

#37. 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. - Author: Meher Baba

#38. 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. - Author: Meher Baba

#39. Why is it so difficult to find God? Because you're looking for something you've never lost. - Author: Meher Baba

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

#41. All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged. - Author: Meher Baba

#42. Irrespective of their birth labels and belief tables, my blessings to all those who feel themselves to be oppressed, depressed and suppressed from any cause whatsoever! - Author: Meher Baba

#43. God and love are identical, and one who has divine love has received God. - Author: Meher Baba

#44. Light can penetrate any amount of darkness but no amount of darkness can penetrate light. - Author: Meher Baba

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

#46. If God can be found through the medium of any drug, God is not worthy of being God. - Author: Meher Baba

#47. I only know one yoga: 'You Go.' - Author: Meher Baba

#48. If we suffer in the sufferings of others and feel happy in the happiness of others, we are loving God. - Author: Meher Baba

#49. Nothing is the shadow of Everything. - Author: Meher Baba

#50. The more a person becomes spiritually minded or advances towards God, the more tolerant he becomes and the less differentiation he sees. - Author: Meher Baba

#51. Joke I read somewhere: They say that God is the innermost dweller of all. Well I hope He likes enchiladas - cause that's what He's getting! Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. - Author: Meher Baba

#52. 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. - Author: Meher Baba

#53. 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. - Author: Meher Baba

#54. I am also an artist. I have the whole world as my canvas. I paint souls ... - Author: Meher Baba

#55. 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. - Author: Meher Baba

#56. Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness. - Author: Meher Baba

#57. 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. - Author: Meher Baba

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

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

#60. When love is not at its height, it always creates a mess. - Author: Meher Baba

#61. Pure love is matchless in majesty; it has no parallel in power and there is no darkness it cannot dispel ... - Author: Meher Baba

#62. God alone is real, and all else is illusion. - Author: Meher Baba

#63. Love and understanding never condemn but always seek to help and encourage. - Author: Meher Baba

#64. There is nothing that love cannot achieve, and there is nothing that love cannot sacrifice. - Author: Meher Baba

#65. 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. - Author: Meher Baba

#66. I have come not to teach but to awaken. - Author: Meher Baba

#67. What I want from my Lovers is real unadulterated love, and from my genuine workers I expect real work done. - Author: Meher Baba

#68. 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. - Author: Meher Baba

#69. I am also a painter. I paint the hearts of people with colors of spirituality. - Author: Meher Baba

#70. Life becomes meaningful and all activities are purposeful only on the basis of faith in the enduring reality. - Author: Meher Baba

#71. The seeker asking, Where is God? Is really God saying, Where indeed is the seeker! - Author: Meher Baba

#72. 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. - Author: Meher Baba

#73. Feelings and emotions are only the creation of mind and energy. Love is the creation of the soul. - Author: Meher Baba

#74. I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play ... - Author: Meher Baba

#75. 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. - Author: Meher Baba

#76. 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. - Author: Meher Baba

#77. 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. - Author: Meher Baba

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

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

#80. In the world, there are countless Sadhus, Mahatmas, Mahapurushas, Saints, Yogis, and Walis, though the number of genuine ones is very, very limited. I am neither a Mahatma nor a Mahapurush, neither a Sadhu nor a Saint, neither a Yogi nor a Wali. I am the ancient One. The Highest of the High! - Author: Meher Baba

#81. Love can attain what the intellect cannot fathom. - Author: Meher Baba

#82. The satisfaction derived from the fleeting things of life is not lasting; and our wants remain unfulfilled. There is thus a general sense of dissatisfaction accompanied by all kinds of worries. - Author: Meher Baba

#83. Seek a reality deeper than the changing forms. - Author: Meher Baba

#84. Love and forgiveness is not for the faint-hearted. - Author: Meher Baba

#85. Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them. - Author: Meher Baba

#86. There is no greater romance in life than this adventure in realization. - Author: Meher Baba

#87. Those who constantly want something will never feel happy. - Author: Meher Baba

#88. 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! - Author: Meher Baba

#89. 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. - Author: Meher Baba

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

#91. 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 ... - Author: Meher Baba

#92. 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. - Author: Meher Baba

#93. The human form was never [formed] to beget children. This tendency among people to cohabit is nothing but animal instinct inherited from all the previous lives of evolution from the stone to the human form. - Author: Meher Baba

#94. No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do. - Author: Meher Baba

#95. God cannot be explained ... God can only be lived. - Author: Meher Baba

#96. It is not so much that you are within the cosmos but that the cosmos is within you. - Author: Meher Baba

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

#98. The finding of God is the coming to one's own self. - Author: Meher Baba

#99. 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. - Author: Meher Baba

#100. 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. - Author: Meher Baba