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Meher Baba

(1894–1969) Theologian

143 quotes in 718 categories

Meher Baba reminds us that the real question is where the seeker lives, not where God is. He teaches that art created with love opens a deeper inner life, and that constantly craving something keeps happiness out of reach. Surrendering thoughts to a teacher is like washing away dirty laundry.

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Meher Baba was a theologian, best known for Listen, humanity.

Quick Facts About Meher Baba

Born: February 25, 1894
Died: January 31, 1969
Profession: Theologian
Notable works: Listen, humanity

About Meher Baba

Meher Baba was an Indian spiritual master who said he was the Avatar, or the total manifestation of God in human form. A spiritual figure of the 20th century, he had a following of hundreds of thousands of people, mostly in India, with a smaller number of followers in North America, Europe, South America, and Australia.

Quotes by Meher Baba

I only know one yoga: 'You Go.'

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Being is Dying by Loving.

Death

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Nothing is the shadow of Everything.

Shadow

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I have come not to teach but to awaken.

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You must make bold experiments in life!

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It's a divine art to be cheerful.

Art

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“Mastery in Servitude”

Excellence

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I am the Avatar of this Age!

Age

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

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Those who constantly want something will never feel happy.

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

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

God

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

Adventure

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

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God alone is real, and all else is illusion.

God

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

Bliss

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

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

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Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others. Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. So learn to love and…

Delight

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

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

Desire

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

Aspiration

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All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged. What is meant by God-realization is to actually experience this important thing…

Comes and goes

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

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The experiences are so innumerable and varied, that the journey appears to be interminable and the Destination is ever out of sight.…

Destination

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Let not the dirt of the sanskaras of your thoughts and deeds touch you, by surrendering every thought and act at the…

Action

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If you are convinced of God's existence then it rests with you to seek Him, to see Him and to realize Him.…

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The best way to cleanse the heart and prepare for the stilling of the mind is to lead a normal, worldly life.…

Best way

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If I were to ask the famous Henry Ford to come over here and do what I tell him to do, would…

Alive

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Give up all forms of parrotry. Start practicing whatever you truly feel to be true and justly to be just. Do not…

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The intellect of most persons is harnessed by innumerable wants. Such a life is, from the spiritual point of view the lowest…

Contentment

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When the bubble of ignorance bursts the self realizes its oneness with the indivisible Self. Words that proceed from the Source of…

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All religions are equal to me. And all castes and creeds are dear to me. But though I appreciate all 'isms,' religions…

Absolute truth

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To penetrate into the essence of all being and significance, and to release the fragrance of that inner attainment for the guidance…

Absolutes

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Avataric periods are like the spring-tide of creation. They bring a new release of power, a new awakening of consciousness, a new…

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The Avatar does not as a rule interfere with the working out of human destinies. He will do so only in times…

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God has come again and again in various Forms, has spoken again and again in different words and different languages the Same…

Adversity

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When I break My Silence, the impact of My Love will be universal and all life in creation will know, feel and…

Beloved

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There are very few things in the mind which eat up as much energy as worry. It is one of the most…

Alive

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The essence of spirituality does not consist in a specialised or narrow interest in some imagined part of life, but in a…

Affirmation

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Meher Baba by topic

Love (37) Life (26) Inspirational (22) Religion (16) Spirituality (11) Psychology (11) God (11) Time (10) Spiritual (10) Self (10)