Meher Baba Quotes

Love is the movement within life that carries us, that enables us, that causes us to break out of what Alan Watts calls the “skin-encapsulated ego.” Without love, we are self-centered, but love enables us to move the center of our lives outside our ego. Therefore it expands our lives and, needless to say, enriches it. Any human being would give anything to love or be loved. When it really happens, it is like heaven on earth.

When you see a bad romantic comedy, you see the script, the director, and the actors trying to create this warmth and this pathos and this feeling that you care about them. That cannot be manufactured - it's either there or it isn't.

Being in love is the only transcendent experience.

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.

As a child, I was an active Christian. I used to love the school choir and remember the carol service as always such an emotional thing.

Music is real when it goes inside you. You know when you really love someone, and you look into their eyes and you know it's real? Even though I'm an electronic artist, I wanna keep it real.

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.

Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments.

Much prayer, but no piety.

Only lovers know the value and magnanimity of truth.

I think we have to prepare the mind in one way or another to accept the great uprush or downrush, whichever you like to call it, of the greater non-self.

True friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie.

None of the things in life - like love or faith - was arrived at by thinking; indeed, one could almost define the things that mattered as the ones that came as suddenly as thunder.

In love lies the seed of our growth. The more we love, the closer we are to the spiritual experience.

Of all the definitions of love that abound in our universe, a special favorite of mine is... “the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.”

Authentic love always assumes the mystery of modesty, even in its expression, because actions speak louder than words. Unlike a feigned love, it feels no need to set a conflagration.

No one knows very much about the life of another. This ignorance becomes vivid, if you love another. Love sets the imagination on fire, and, also, eventually, chars the imagination into a harder element: imagination cannot match love, cannot plunge so deep, or range so wide.

Love begins with love ; and the warmest friendship cannot change even to the coldest love.

Love is something you cant invent, no matter how much you want to.

What is the thing you want most from me? What can I do to make you love me?' Be yourself,' said Ipek.

Really love him, I mean," Geilie persisted. "Not just to bed him; I know you want that, and he does too. They all do. But do you love him?" Did I love him? Beyond the urges of the flesh? The hole had the dark anonymity of the confessional, and a soul on the verge of death had no time for lies. "Yes," I said, and laid my head back on my knees. It was silent in the hole for some time, and I hovered once more on the verge of sleep, when I heard her speak once more, as though to herself. "So it's possible," she said thoughtfully.

Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable.

I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.

Love alone is credible.