Top 100 Meher Baba Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Don’t Worry Be Happy.”

— Meher Baba

2. “Light can penetrate any amount of darkness but no amount of darkness can penetrate light.”

— Meher Baba

3. “Live a sincere life; be natural, and be honest with yourself.”

— Meher Baba

4. “Things that are real are given and received in silence.”

— Meher Baba

5. “A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.”

— Meher Baba

6. “Things that are real are given and received in Silence. God has been everlastingly working in Silence, unobserved, unheard, except by those who experience His Infinite Silence.”

— Meher Baba

7. “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.”

— Meher Baba

8. “Why is it so difficult to find God? Because you’re looking for something you’ve never lost.”

— Meher Baba

9. “God and love are identical, and one who has divine love has received God.”

— Meher Baba

10. “I have come not to teach but to awaken.”

— Meher Baba

11. “External silence helps to achieve inner silence.”

— Meher Baba

12. “Love and understanding never condemn but always seek to help and encourage.”

— Meher Baba

13. “Seek a reality deeper than the changing forms.”

— Meher Baba

14. “Just think you are the greatest. Where’s the harm in thinking like that? It is not for pride you do it, but for bringing the best out of you. There is nothing wrong.”

— Meher Baba

15. “Love and forgiveness is not for the faint-hearted.”

— Meher Baba

16. “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

17. “Difficulties give us the opportunity to prove our greatness by overcoming them.”

— Meher Baba

18. “It’s a divine art to be cheerful.”

— Meher Baba

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

— Meher Baba

20. “Love is the reflection of God’s unity in the world of duality. It constitutes the entire significance of creation.”

— Meher Baba

21. “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

22. “Love God and find him within – the only treasure worth finding.”

— Meher Baba

23. “Those who constantly want something will never feel happy.”

— Meher Baba

24. “God alone is real, and all else is illusion.”

— Meher Baba

25. “Love is nothing if it is not spontaneous. It cannot be a conclusion of reasoning.”

— Meher Baba

26. “Feelings and emotions are only the creation of mind and energy. Love is the creation of the soul.”

— Meher Baba

27. “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.”

— Meher Baba

28. “Happiest is he who expects no happiness from others.”

— Meher Baba

29. “God alone is real, nothing matters but love for God.”

— Meher Baba

30. “Love delights and glorifies in giving, not receiving.”

— Meher Baba

31. “You must make bold experiments in life!”

— Meher Baba

32. “No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.”

— Meher Baba

33. “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

34. “It is not so much that you are within the cosmos but that the cosmos is within you.”

— Meher Baba

35. “Long for what is real. You will then have no time for worrying over what may never happen.”

— Meher Baba

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

— Meher Baba

37. “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

38. “I am also a painter. I paint the hearts of people with colors of spirituality.”

— Meher Baba

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

— Meher Baba

40. “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

41. “One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.”

— Meher Baba

42. “God has to be temporarily cruel in order to be permanently kind.”

— Meher Baba

43. “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

44. “There is no higher or lower goal. There is only one goal, Self-Realization.”

— Meher Baba

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

— Meher Baba

46. “All illusion comes and goes, but the soul remains unchanged.”

— Meher Baba

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

— Meher Baba

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

— Meher Baba

49. “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

50. “The seeker asking, Where is God? Is really God saying, Where indeed is the seeker!”

— Meher Baba