Meher Baba Quotations

What I want from my Lovers is real unadulterated love, and from my genuine workers I expect real work done.

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.

Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation.

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!

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

I am the Avatar of this Age!

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.

People wait for the big moment, the great event, and forget that happiness comes from building steadily on the small daily things of life. People wait for that special moment to express love and forget that love springs from thoughtfulness practised every day. People wait, but waiting is future and NOW is always the time.

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

Nothing is the shadow of Everything.

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

I only know one yoga: 'You Go.'

You must make bold experiments in life!

It's a divine art to be cheerful.

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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 .

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.

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.

There is only one question. And once you know the answer to that question there are no more to ask.

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

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 out

Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others.

When a person tells others 'Be good,' he conveys to his hearers the feeling that he is good and they are not.

All religions are equal to me. And all castes and creeds are dear to me. But though I appreciate all `isms,' religions and political parties for the many good things they seek to achieve, I do not and cannot belong to any of these `isms,' religions or political parties, for the Absolute Truth, while equally including them, transcends all of them and leaves no room for separative divisions which are all equally false.

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.

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.

The objective of spiritual advancement is not so much 'works' but the quality of life free from ego-consciousness.

The finding of God is the coming to one's own self.

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.

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.

God is Infinite and His Shadow is also infinite. The Shadow of God is the Infinite Space that accommodates the infinite Gross Sphere which, with its occurrences of millions of universes, within and without the ranges of men's knowledge, is the Creation that issued from the Point of Finiteness in the infinite Existence that is God.

All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged.

I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play...

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.

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

There is no greater romance in life than this adventure in realization.

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

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.

When longing is most intense separation is complete, and the purpose of separation, which was that Love might experience itself as Lover and Beloved, is fulfilled; and union follows. And when union is attained, the lover knows that he himself was all along the Beloved whom he loved and desired union with; and that all the impossible situations that he overcame were obstacles which he himself had placed in the path to himself. 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.

Why is it so difficult to find God? Because you're looking for something you've never lost.

Things that are real are given and received in silence.

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.

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.

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

The seeker asking, Where is God? Is really God saying, Where indeed is the seeker!

Love is nothing if it is not spontaneous. It cannot be a conclusion of reasoning.

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.

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.

Irrespective of doubts and convictions, and for the Infinite Love I bear for one and all, I continue to come as the Avatar, to be judged time and again by humanity in its ignorance, in order to help man distinguish the Real from the false.

God cannot be explained... God can only be lived.

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

Being is Dying by Loving.

God has come again and again in various Forms, has spoken again and again in different words and different languages the Same One Truth but how many are there that live up to it? Instead of making Truth the vitalbreath of his life, man compromises by making over and over againa mechanical religion of it a handy staff to lean on in times of adversity, a soothing balm for his conscience or a tradition to be followed.

Love is the reflection of God's unity in the world of duality. It constitutes the entire significance of creation.

Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving.

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.

Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness.

Those who constantly want something will never feel happy.

Don't Worry Be Happy

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

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.

Love and forgiveness is not for the faint-hearted.

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

Give up all forms of parrotry. Start practicing whatever you truly feel to be true and justly to be just. Do not make a show of your faith and beliefs. You have not to give up your religion, but to give up clinging to the husk of mere ritual and ceremony. To get to the fundamental core of Truth underlying all religions, reach beyond religion.

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

The Avatar does not as a rule interfere with the working out of human destinies. He will do so only in times of grave necessity when He deems itabsolutely necessary from His all encompassing point of view. For a single alteration in the planned and imprinted pattern in which each line and dot is interdependent, means a shaking up and a re-linking of an unending chain of possibilities and events.

Seek a reality deeper than the changing forms.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Love can attain what the intellect cannot fathom.

Love and understanding never condemn but always seek to help and encourage.

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

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

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

God alone is real, nothing matters but love for God.

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.

I love artists, because through art one can express oneself beautifully.

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

If God can be found through the medium of any drug, God is not worthy of being God.

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

illusion throughout is illusion. There is no end to it, just as there is no end to imagination.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

External silence helps to achieve inner silence.

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.

...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....

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.