Meher Baba Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

Though the eye is small, the soul which sees through it is greater and vaster than all the things which it perceives. In fact, it is so great that it includes all objects, however large or numerous, within itself. For it is not so much that you are within the cosmos as that the cosmos is within you. — Meher Baba

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. — Meher Baba

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. — Meher Baba

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

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

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. — Meher Baba

I only know one yoga: 'You Go.' — Meher Baba

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

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 ... — Meher Baba

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

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. — Meher Baba

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

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. — Meher Baba

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

The Infinite alone exists and is Real; the finite is passing and false. The Original Whim in the Beyond caused the apparent descent of the Infinite into the realm of the seeming finite. This is the Divine Mystery and Divine Game in which Infinite Consciousness for ever plays on all levels of finite consciousness. — Meher Baba

I have come not to teach but to awaken. — Meher Baba

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

If I were to ask the famous Henry Ford to come over here and do what I tell him to do, would he do it? Never! But if I were to make a thousand-year-old corpse come alive before his eyes, he would jump at the chance to stay here and wash my clothes! — Meher Baba

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

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

God has to be temporarily cruel in order to be permanently kind. — Meher Baba

This whole universe, with all its vastness, grandeur and beauty, is nothing but sheer imagination. In spite of so many discoveries, researches and scientific knowledge, the creation remains a great unsolved riddle. — Meher Baba

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. — Meher Baba

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

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

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. — Meher Baba

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

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

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

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. — Meher Baba

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Meher Baba

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

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

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

External silence helps to achieve inner silence. — Meher Baba

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. — Meher Baba

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

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

Mastery in Servitude — Meher Baba

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. — Meher Baba

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

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

God cannot be explained ... God can only be lived. — Meher Baba

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. — Meher Baba

About the New Life Meher Baba wrote:
This New Life is endless, and even after my physical death it will be kept alive by those who live the life of complete renunciation of falsehood, lies, hatred, anger, greed and lust; and who, to accomplish all this, do no lustful actions, do no harm to anyone, do no backbiting, do not seek material possessions or power, who accept no homage, neither covet honor nor shun disgrace, and fear no one and nothing; by those who rely wholly and solely on God, and who love God purely for the sake of loving; who believe in the lovers of God and in the reality of Manifestation, and yet do not expect any spiritual or material reward; who do not let go the hand of Truth, and who, without being upset by calamities, bravely and wholeheartedly face all hardships with one hundred percent cheerfulness, and give no importance to caste, creed and religious ceremonies. This New Life will live by itself eternally, even if there is no one to live it. — Meher Baba

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. — Meher Baba

Nothing is the shadow of Everything. — Meher Baba

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

The intellect of most persons is harnessed by innumerable wants. Such a life is, from the spiritual point of view the lowest type of human existence. The highest type of human existence is free from all wants; and it is characterised by sufficiency or contentment. — Meher Baba

It's a divine art to be cheerful. — Meher Baba

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. — Meher Baba

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. — Meher Baba

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

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

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 — Meher Baba

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

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. — Meher Baba

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

Divine love makes us true to ourselves and to others ...
Divine love is the solution to our difficulties and problems.
It frees us from every kind of binding.
It makes us speak truly, think truly, and act truly.
It makes us feel one with the whole universe.
Divine love purifies our hearts and glorifies our being. — Meher Baba

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. — Meher Baba

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

Love can attain what the intellect cannot fathom. — Meher Baba

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. — Meher Baba

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

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. — Meher Baba

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

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

A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine. — Meher Baba

What is politics but fraud? Whatever your own, honest, candid opinion might be, you have to act according to the creed of the party, [at times] against the voice of your conscience, and thus be dependent upon others for your actions, which is quite opposed to the fundamental principles of Truth. — Meher Baba

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

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. — Meher Baba

Love and forgiveness is not for the faint-hearted. — Meher Baba

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

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! — Meher Baba

You must make bold experiments in life! — Meher Baba

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. — Meher Baba

Irrespective of their birth labels and belief tables, my blessings to all those who feel themselves to be oppressed, depressed and suppressed from any cause whatsoever! — Meher Baba

The human form was never [formed] to beget children. This tendency among people to cohabit is nothing but animal instinct inherited from all the previous lives of evolution from the stone to the human form. — Meher Baba

God alone is real, nothing matters but love for God. — Meher Baba

I am the Avatar of this Age! — Meher Baba

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

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! — Meher Baba

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

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

Seek a reality deeper than the changing forms. — Meher Baba

God alone is real, and all else is illusion. — Meher Baba

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

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. — Meher Baba

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. — Meher Baba

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

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. — Meher Baba