Meher Baba Born : February 25, 1894 Died : January 31, 1969 Browse All Authors Top 136 quotes by Meher Baba 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 love-you spring love-is 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 path desire No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do. Meher Baba prayer spiritual inspirational 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 ocean spiritual order A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine. Meher Baba sick sound mind Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them. Meher Baba greatness opportunity giving Desire nothing except desirelessness. Meher Baba rise-above want desire Light can penetrate any amount of darkness but no amount of darkness can penetrate light. Meher Baba penetrate light darkness Feelings and emotions are only the creation of mind and energy. Love is the creation of the soul. Meher Baba soul feelings love-is 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-not-receiving glorify delight 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 forget-everything ego too-much 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 spiritual travel Pure love is matchless in majesty; it has no parallel in power and there is no darkness it cannot dispel. Meher Baba darkness love-you love-is 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. Meher Baba realizing found heart It is not so much that you are within the cosmos but that the cosmos is within you. Meher Baba cosmos within-you 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 spirituality humility world 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. Meher Baba infinite silence real 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 ego worry past God alone is real, and all else is illusion. Meher Baba illusion real 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. Meher Baba adversity different men
