Meher Baba Quotes

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.

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

Desire nothing except desirelessness. Hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes. Want nothing and you will have everything.

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.

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.

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

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

Feelings and emotions are only the creation of mind and energy. Love is the creation of the soul.

Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them.

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

Pure love is matchless in majesty; it has no parallel in power and there is no darkness it cannot dispel.

I am also an artist. I have the whole world as my canvas. I paint souls.

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

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

The book that I shall make people read is the book of the heart, which holds the key to the mystery of life

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

Don't Worry Be Happy

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.

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.)

External silence helps to achieve inner Silence.

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

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.

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

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

Nothing is the shadow of Everything.

The best course for My lover is to remember Me wholeheartedly as much as one can…and leave the rest to Me.

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.

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.

I have come not to teach but to awaken.

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.

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

When love is not at its height, it always creates a mess.

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.

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.

God and love are identical, and one who has divine love has received God.

Every good work has to face opposition, and the reaction of the opposition offered always helps the work.

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

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.

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

God alone is real, and all else is illusion.

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

True love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak; it is born of strength and understanding.

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.

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.

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

...the more a person becomes spiritually minded or advances towards God, the more tolerant he becomes and the less differentiation he sees.

There is nothing that love cannot achieve, and there is nothing that love cannot sacrifice.

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.

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.

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