Meher Baba Quotes

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

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

When one, abandoning greed, feels no greed for what would merit greed, greed gets shed from him - like a drop of water from a lotus leaf.

As meditation goes deep you will feel less and less desires, more and more contentment with whatsoever you have. There will be less and less desire for that which you don't have, and more and more contentment with whatsoever you have. As meditation goes deeper, a very contented consciousness evolves. Ultimately there is no desire, only contentment.

No one can be a yogi, maintaining a state of mental equilibrium, free from inner involvement in planned desireful activities, unless he has renounced identification with his ego and its unsatisfiable lust for the fruits of actions.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in 'renouncing' one's own self, by which I mean making up one's mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being 'happy' or 'unhappy' in the usual meaning of the words.

I'm big into Eastern concepts. The horror of life, the love of children, the whole phantasmagoria - it's all meaningless. Be still, and see what happens. All of life unfolds perfectly. You have to get beyond consciousness.

Suffering only shows where you are attached. That is why, to those on the path, suffering is grace.

The essence of the Way is detachment. And the goal of those who practice is freedom from appearances.

When there is firm conquest over covetousness, they who have conquered it wake up to the how and why of life.

Free from desire, you realize the mystery.

So the unwanting soul sees what's hidden, and the ever-wanting soul sees only what it wants.

Even my desire to become free or enlightened is just another craving for fulfillment or completion in the future. So don’t seek to become free or desire or “achieve” enlightenment. Become present.

Free from desire, you realize the mystery, caught in the desire, you see only the manifestations.

The sage desires no desire, does not value rare treasures, learns without learning, recovers what people have left behind.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.

He in whose mind is no anger, hatred, or envy, who never loses his balance, dies, or is born, who is he but God?

If you want something then you lose everything. If you don’t want anything then you already have everything.

To study the Way is to study the Self. To study the Self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things of the universe. To be enlightened by all things of the universe is to cast off the body and mind of the self as well as those of others. Even the traces of enlightenment are wiped out, and life with traceless enlightenment goes on forever and ever

Let there be as little materialism as possible, with the maximum of spirituality.

Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.

It's only when you become love - in other words, when you have dropped your illusions and attachments - that you will "know." As you identify less and less with the "me," you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything.