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Start by learning to love God by beginning to love those whom you cannot. You will find that in serving others you are serving yourself.

— Meher Baba The Everything and the Nothing (1963)

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

Life becomes meaningful and all activities are purposeful only on the basis of faith in the enduring reality.

Remember that the first step in spirituality is not to speak ill of others.

Lord Meher (1986)

The Infinite alone exists and is Real; the finite is passing and false.

The Everything and the Nothing (1963)

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.

The Everything and the Nothing (1963)

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

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Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

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