Quotes from Meher Baba

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.

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.)

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

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

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.

God alone is real, and all else is illusion.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others.

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

Seek a reality deeper than the changing forms.

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

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.

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.