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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 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.

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The Essence Of Spirituality

Meher Baba

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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 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.

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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. 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.

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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 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.

New Experiences

But Such A Tiny And Trivial Thing As An Umbrella Can Deprive You Of The Sight Of Such A Stupendous Fact As The Sun.

Art When Inspired With Love Leads To Higher Realms, And That Art Will Open For You The Inner Life.

Love Is The Reflection Of God's Unity In The World Of Duality. It Constitutes The Entire Significance Of Creation.

The Finding Of God Is The Coming To One's Own Self.

Worry Has Never Done Anyone Any Good, And It Is Very Much Worse Than Mere Dissipation Of Psychic Energy, For It Substantially Curtails The Joy And Fullness Of Life.

Fullness Of Life

Those Who Constantly Want Something Will Never Feel Happy.

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.

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.

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.

When Longing Is Most Intense Separation Is Complete, And The Purpose Of Separation, Which Was That Love Might Experience Itself As Lover And Beloved, Is Fulfilled; And Union Follows. And When Union Is Attained, The Lover Knows That He Himself Was All Along The Beloved Whom He Loved And Desired Union With; And That All The Impossible Situations That He Overcame Were Obstacles Which He Himself Had Placed In The Path To Himself. 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.

Impossible Situations

Divine Desperateness Is The Beginning Of Spiritual Awakening Because It Gives Rise To The Aspiration For God-realisation.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A Mind That Is Fast Is Sick. A Mind That Is Slow Is Sound. A Mind That Is Still Is Divine.

External Silence Helps To Achieve Inner Silence.

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.

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.

God Cannot Be Explained... God Can Only Be Lived.

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.

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.

Forget Everything

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.

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.

Giving Not Receiving

The Easiest And Shortest Way To God-realization Is Through The Contact Of A Sadguru, Which Means Keeping The Company Or Sahavas Of Such A Master, Obeying Him And Serving Him. This Remedy Is Like A Special Express Train Which Carries You Straight To Your Destination.

The Best Course For My Lover Is To Remember Me Wholeheartedly As Much As One Can…and Leave The Rest To Me.

I Only Know One Yoga: 'you Go.'

Long For What Is Real. You Will Then Have No Time For Worrying Over What May Never Happen.

Difficulties Give Us The Opportunity To Prove Our Greatness By Overcoming Them.

Love And Understanding Never Condemn But Always Seek To Help And Encourage.

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.

Why Is It So Difficult To Find God? Because You're Looking For Something You've Never Lost.

All Illusion Comes And Goes, But The Soul Remains Unchanged.

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.

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!

Seek A Reality Deeper Than The Changing Forms.

Being Is Dying By Loving.

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.

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