110+ Meher Baba Quotes On Silence, Worry And Happy

Meher Baba (1894-1969) was an Indian spiritual master who said he was the Avatar of the age. He taught a path of love, truth, and devotion and advocated for the spiritual advancement of humanity. His teachings and philosophy are followed by millions of people around the world. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Meher Baba on love, silence, worry.

Top 10 Meher Baba Quotes

1. No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.
2. Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others. Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. So learn to love and give, and not to expect anything from others.
3. 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.
4. Feelings and emotions are only the creation of mind and energy. Love is the creation of the soul.
5. Light can penetrate any amount of darkness but no amount of darkness can penetrate light.
6. Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them.
7. If we suffer in the sufferings of others and feel happy in the happiness of others, we are loving God.
8. Pure love is matchless in majesty; it has no parallel in power and there is no darkness it cannot dispel.
9. I am also an artist. I have the whole world as my canvas. I paint souls.
10. Live a sincere life; be natural, and be honest with yourself.

Meher Baba Short Quotes

• There is no higher or lower goal. There is only one goal, Self-Realization.
• If God can be found through the medium of any drug, God is not worthy of being God.
• God alone is real, nothing matters but love for God.
• You must make bold experiments in life!
• God has to be temporarily cruel in order to be permanently kind.
• There is no such thing as evil. Only relative degrees of good.
• Why is it so difficult to find God? Because you're looking for something you've never lost.
• It is not so much that you are within the cosmos but that the cosmos is within you.
• I am the Avatar of this Age!
• I only know one yoga: 'You Go.'

Meher Baba Quotes About Love

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

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

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

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

God and love are identical, and one who has divine love has received 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 delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving. — Meher Baba

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

Meher Baba Quotes About Silence

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

Things that are real are given and received in silence. — Meher Baba

External silence helps to achieve inner Silence. — Meher Baba

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. — Meher Baba

Meher Baba Quotes About Worry

Long for what is real. You will then have no time for worrying over what may never happen. — Meher Baba

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. — Meher Baba

Don't Worry Be Happy — Meher Baba

Don't worry, be happy. — 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

Meher Baba Quotes About Happy

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. — Meher Baba

Those who constantly want something will never feel happy. — Meher Baba

Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others. — 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. — Meher Baba

Meher Baba Quotes About Mind

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

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

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

One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness. — Meher Baba

Form is solidified energy, energy is an expression of the mind, the mind is the covered mirror of Eternity, and Eternity is the Truth, which has thrown off the mask of the mind. — Meher Baba

Meher Baba Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

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. — 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

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

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

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

Give up all forms of parrotry. Start practicing whatever you truly feel to be true and justly to be just. Do not make a show of your faith and beliefs. You have not to give up your religion, but to give up clinging to the husk of mere ritual and ceremony. To get to the fundamental core of Truth underlying all religions, reach beyond religion. — Meher Baba

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. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

People wait for the big moment, the great event, and forget that happiness comes from building steadily on the small daily things of life. People wait for that special moment to express love and forget that love springs from thoughtfulness practised every day. People wait, but waiting is future and NOW is always the time. — 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

The life of the spirit is the expression of Infinity and, as such, knows no artificial limits. True spirituality is not to be mistaken for an exclusive enthusiasm for some fad. It is not concerned with any "ism." When people seek spirituality apart from life, as if it had nothing to do with the material world, their search is futile. — Meher Baba

I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play, but in the spiritual arena there are people who are even closer to me than that. — 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

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

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

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

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

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. — Meher Baba

These false answers such as, I am stone, I am bird, I am animal, I am man, I am woman, I am great, I am small are, in turn, received, tested and discarded until the Question arrives at the right and Final Answer, I AM GOD. — Meher Baba

All religions are equal to me. And all castes and creeds are dear to me. But though I appreciate all `isms,' religions and political parties for the many good things they seek to achieve, I do not and cannot belong to any of these `isms,' religions or political parties, for the Absolute Truth, while equally including them, transcends all of them and leaves no room for separative divisions which are all equally false. — 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

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

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

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

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

I am also a painter. I paint the hearts of people with colors of spirituality. — Meher Baba

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

When love is not at its height, it always creates a mess. — Meher Baba

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

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

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

Nothing is the shadow of Everything. — Meher Baba

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

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

As you all become more intimate with Me, with opportunities to come closer to Me, all that is good and bad within you comes out in sparks, as it were . . . all the impressions of the past, the accumulations of past sanskaras - of all illusory things, which includes both good and bad - come out. My proximity, the intimacy with Me, just changes that mass of sanskaras, and sometimes you find sparks of good and bad flying out. — 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

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

The Avatar does not as a rule interfere with the working out of human destinies. He will do so only in times of grave necessity - when He deems itabsolutely necessary from His all - encompassing point of view. For a single alteration in the planned and imprinted pattern in which each line and dot is interdependent, means a shaking up and a re-linking of an unending chain of possibilities and events. — 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

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

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

God is Infinite and His Shadow is also infinite. The Shadow of God is the Infinite Space that accommodates the infinite Gross Sphere which, with its occurrences of millions of universes, within and without the ranges of men's knowledge, is the Creation that issued from the Point of Finiteness in the infinite Existence that is God. — Meher Baba

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

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. — Meher Baba

Desire nothing except desirelessness. Hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes. Want nothing and you will have everything. — Meher Baba

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

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

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

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

Irrespective of doubts and convictions, and for the Infinite Love I bear for one and all, I continue to come as the Avatar, to be judged time and again by humanity in its ignorance, in order to help man distinguish the Real from the false. — Meher Baba

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

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