Top 100 Meher Baba Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

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

— Meher Baba

53. “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

54. “I love everybody. Each one plays the role they have to play...”

— Meher Baba

55. “There is no such thing as evil. Only relative degrees of good.”

— Meher Baba

56. “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

57. “I love artists, because through art one can express oneself beautifully.”

— Meher Baba

58. “Form is solidified energy; energy is an expression of mind; mind is the covered mirror of Eternity; and Eternity is Truth that has thrown off the mask of mind.”

— Meher Baba

59. “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

60. “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

61. “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

62. “There is no difference in the realization of the Truth either by a Muslim, Hindu, Zoroastrian, or a Christian. The difference is only in words and terms. Truth is not the monopoly of a particular race or religion.”

— Meher Baba

63. “Being is Dying by Loving.”

— Meher Baba

64. “Love can attain what the intellect cannot fathom.”

— Meher Baba

65. “Nothing is the shadow of Everything.”

— Meher Baba

66. “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

67. “The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done even whilst attending to our worldly duties...”

— Meher Baba

68. “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

69. “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

70. “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

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

— Meher Baba

72. “The intellect of most persons is harnessed by innumerable wants. Such a life is, from the spiritual point of view the lowest type of human existence. The highest type of human existence is free from all wants; and it is characterised by sufficiency or contentment.”

— Meher Baba

73. “The objective of spiritual advancement is not so much ‘works’ but the quality of life free from ego-consciousness.”

— Meher Baba

74. “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

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

— Meher Baba

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

— Meher Baba

77. “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

78. “I am also an artist. I have the whole world as my canvas. I paint souls...”

— Meher Baba

79. “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.”

— Meher Baba

80. “Sometimes our weakness is considered strength, and we take delight in borrowed greatness.”

— Meher Baba

81. “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

82. “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

83. “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

84. “There is nothing that love cannot achieve, and there is nothing that love cannot sacrifice.”

— Meher Baba

85. “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

86. “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

87. “I only know one yoga: ‘You Go.’”

— Meher Baba

88. “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

89. “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

90. “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

91. “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

92. “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

93. “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

94. “When a person tells others ‘Be good,’ he conveys to his hearers the feeling that he is good and they are not.”

— Meher Baba

95. “If God can be found through the medium of any drug, God is not worthy of being God.”

— Meher Baba

96. “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

97. “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

98. “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

99. “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

100. “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