...the more a person becomes spiritually minded or advances towards God, the more tolerant he becomes and the less differentiation he sees.
Interpretation
Spiritual growth leads to greater tolerance and unity with others.
This quote by Meher Baba suggests that as individuals foster their spiritual awareness and draw closer to a divine understanding, they naturally begin to embrace a mindset of tolerance. Instead of focusing on the differences that separate people, they perceive a deeper connection that underscores our shared humanity, diminishing the barriers that often divide us.
In practice
This quote can be shared in a group discussion on spiritual philosophies.
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.
You will find the Divine in the last place, because once you find it, you will not go on searching.
If you have to have it, it's ego. If you have to not have it, it's ego. Hold life lightly and it will deliver what you need and release what you don't.
Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.
One certainty we all accept is the condition of being uncertain and insecure.
A cloud of incense was rising on high; the people suddenly all bowed low; what could it mean? The truth flashed on him, fearfully yet sweetly; it was the Blessed Sacrament - it was the Lord Incarnate who was on the altar, who had come to visit and bless his people. It was the Great Presence, which makes a Catholic Church different from every other place in the world; which makes it, as no other place can be - holy.
Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow.
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