There is no greater romance in life than this adventure in realization.
Interpretation
Life's most profound journey is the quest for self-realization.
Meher Baba highlights that the true essence of romance lies not in fleeting love stories, but in the deeper adventure of understanding oneself and realizing one's purpose in life. This exploration of self-awareness is a powerful and transformative experience that elevates the human experience beyond mere romantic entanglements.
In practice
During a motivational seminar on personal growth, one might say this quote to inspire the audience to seek deeper understanding.
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.
Love has to spring spontaneously from within And it is no way amenable to any form of inner or outer force. Love and coercion can never go together; But though love cannot be forced on anyone, It can be awakened in him through love itself. Love is essentially self communicative; Those who do not have it catch it from those who have it. True love is unconquerable and irresistible, And it goes on gathering power and spreading itself, Until eventually it transforms everyone whom it touches.
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.
What I want from my lovers is real, unadulterated love, and from my genuine workers I expect real work done.
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.
When the mind soars in pursuit of the things conceived in space...it pursues emptiness; but when man dives deep within himself, he experiences the fullness of existence.
The coming of Christ means a denial of what we thought we were. It means destroying the white devil in us. Reconciliation to God means that white people are prepared to deny themselves (whiteness), take up the cross (blackness) and follow Christ (black ghetto).
we are the lords of all eternity
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
They came from the four corners of the earth, driven by hunger, plague, tumors, and the cold, and stopped here. They couldn’t go any futrther because of the ocean. That’s France, that’s the French people.
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.
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