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 strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate... is a totalitarian's dream.
And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.
The emotions aren't always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.
No serious sociologist any longer believes that the voice of the people expresses any divine or specially wise and lofty idea. The voice of the people expresses the mind of the people, and that mind is made up for it by the group leaders in whom it believes and by those persons who understand the manipulation of public opinion. It is composed of inherited prejudices and symbols and clichΓ©s and verbal formulas supplied to them by the leaders.
Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.
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