Long for what is real. You will then have no time for worrying over what may never happen.
Interpretation
Focusing on what is real helps to alleviate unnecessary worries about the future.
The quote by Meher Baba emphasizes the importance of valuing reality and the present moment over hypothetical fears and worries about what might occur in the future. By cultivating a longing for authenticity and the tangible aspects of life, individuals can free themselves from the anxieties that stem from speculating about uncertainties.
In practice
In a motivational speech about mindfulness, this quote can remind the audience to stay grounded in their current experiences.
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.
There is no greater romance in life than this adventure in realization.
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.
It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.
Many people come to self-help material because they feel like something is wrong with them or the way they are. The problem is that anything that tells you how to improve your life is also implying that there is something inherently wrong with you the way you are.
An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, "Things that never happened."
Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.
One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty councils.
There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
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