Meher Baba Quotes

I have followed after the truth, across this windy planet upon which every person is nourished by one or another lie.

Reality seems so simple. We just open our eyes and there it is. But that doesn't mean it is simple.

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.

Reason is the illusion of reality

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.

Reality can easily become the current fantasy.

They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?

If we agree that the world is not what it seems, then we have an important question: What shall we do about it?

To ask the hard question is simple.

The world is a lie...not you and me.

It's a true image, born of a false spectacle.

Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible.

Love is only one fine star away, even though the living is sometimes laced with lies.

When we consider reality itself we quickly become aware of its infinite complexity, and we realize that our habitual perception of it is often inadequate. If this were not so, the concept of deception would be meaningless.

The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.

You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two and two doesn’t necessarily get you the truth. Two and two equals a voice outside the window. Two and two equals the wind. The living bird is not its labeled bones.

Do not believe the truth. The truth is tiny compared to what you have to do.

Deep down we've never been who we think we once were, and we only remember what never happened.

Lies are usually attempts to make everything simpler - for the liar - than it really is, or ought to be.

Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat's meat men.

That which we call substance and reality is shadow and illusion, and that which we call shadow and illusion is substance and reality.

If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.

The reason why most people are frustrated is because a lie cannot be turned into a truth.

The world isn't what you think it is.