104 quotes
God is Infinite and His Shadow is also infinite.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
Give up all forms of parrotry. Start practising whatever you truly feel to be true and justly to be just. Do not make a show of your faiths and beliefs.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
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.
Lord Meher (1986)
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.
Lord Meher (1986)
I tell you all, with my Divine Authority, that you and I are not “WE,” but “ONE.”
Meher Baba’s Call (1954)
The only Real Surrender is that in which poise is undisturbed by any adverse circumstance, and the individual, amidst every kind of hardship, is resigned with perfect calm to the will of God.
Discourses (1967)
You know that you are a human being, and I know that I am the Avatar. It is my whole life!
Lord Meher (1986)
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.)
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
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.
Lord Meher (1986)
If the body yields to the claims of the spirit as it should, it is instrumental in bringing down the kingdom of heaven on earth. It becomes a vehicle for the release of divine life, and when it subserves this purpose it might aptly be called the temple of God on earth.
Discourses (1967)
If you are convinced of God's existence then it rests with you to seek Him, to see Him and to realize Him.
Do not search for God outside of you. God can only be found within you, for His only abode is the heart.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)
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.
Discourses (1967)
You have asked for and been given enough words — it is now time to live them.
The Universal Message (1958)
Spiritual freedom has to be won by oneself for oneself through watchful and unfailing war against the lower self and the lower desires. (p 2313)
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.
Discourses (1967)
Better the absence of greatness than the establishing of a false greatness by assumed humility.
Meher Baba’s Call (1954)
The greatest greatness and the greatest humility go hand in hand naturally and without effort.
Meher Baba’s Call (1954)
This has been going on cycle after cycle, and millions of such cycles must have passed by, and will continue to pass by, without affecting eternity in the least.
It is never presumptuous for anyone to hope for realization. It is the goal of creation and the birthright of humanity. Blessed are they who are prepared to assert that right in this very life.
Message to Garrett Fort (1936)
What I want from all my lovers is real, unadulterated love, and from my genuine workers I expect real work done.
What Baba Means by Real Work (1954)