Meher Baba Quotes

Meher Baba shares gentle, reflective insights on compassion and God that soothe the mind.

42 quotes

1. Don't worry, be happy.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. To penetrate into the essence of all being and significance and to release the fragrance of that inner attainment for the guidance and benefit of others, by expressing, in the world of forms, truth, love, purity and beauty-this is the sole game which has intrinsic and absolute worth. All other happenings, incidents and attainments in themselves can have no lasting importance.

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

6. 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.

7. It is better to deny God, than to defy God.

8. For example, you are a man. Is it necessary for you to tell others that you are a man? No. But if you are living among donkeys, you would vehemently declare that you are a man. In the same way, I am God, but I have not to speak of it, because it is quite natural. Yet sometimes, I have to declare it.

9. Know you all that if I am the Highest of the High my role demands that I strip you of your possessions and wants, consume all your desires and make you desireless rather than satisfy your desires. Sadhus, saints, yogis and walis can give you what you want; but I take away your wants and free you from attachments and liberate you from the bondage of ignorance. I am the one to take, not the one to give, what you want as you want.

10. Man's inability to live God's words makes the Avatar's teaching a mockery. Instead of practicing the compassion he taught, man has waged wars in his name. Instead of living the humility, purity, and truth of his words, man has given way to hatred, greed, and violence. Because man has been deaf to the principles and precepts laid down by God in the past, in this present Avataric form, I observe silence.

11. I speak eternally. The voice that is heard deep within the soul is My voice - the voice of inspiration, of intuition, of guidance. Through those who are receptive to this voice, I speak.

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

13. Tell those who indulge in these drugs (LSD, marijuana, and other types) that it is harmful physically, mentally and spiritually, and that they should stop the taking of these drugs. Your duty is to tell them, regardless of whether they accept what you say, or if they ridicule or humiliate you, to boldly and bravely face these things.

14. You are to bring my message to those ensnared in the drug-net of illusion that they should abstain, that the drugs will bring more harm than good. I send my love to them.

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

16. Seek a reality deeper than the changing forms.

17. Art, when inspired with love, leads to higher realms. Love art and that art will open for you the inner life.

18. 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.

19. 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.

20. 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.

21. Those who constantly want something will never feel happy.

22. Love and forgiveness is not for the faint-hearted.

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

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

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

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

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

28. God alone is real, and all else is illusion.

29. 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.

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

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

32. 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.

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

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

35. Things that are real are given and received in silence.

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

37. 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.

38. The intellect of most persons is harnessed by innumerable wants. From the spiritual point of view, such a life is the lowest type of human existence. The highest type of human existence is free from all wants and is characterised by sufficiency or contentment.

39. 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.

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

41. Nothing is the shadow of Everything.

42. Being is Dying by Loving.