According to the law that governs the universe,all sufferings are your labor of love to unveil your real self.
Interpretation
Suffering can reveal our true selves and is part of personal growth.
Meher Baba's quote suggests that the challenges and suffering we experience are not merely burdens, but instead serve a greater purpose. They are part of our 'labor of love' that helps us to uncover our authentic identity and true nature. Through enduring difficult times, we can gain deeper insights into ourselves, leading to personal transformation and self-realization.
In practice
During a motivational speech to encourage resilience in the face of adversity.
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.
Men create the gods after their own images.
Weapons are ominous tools. They are not the noble ruler's tools. He only uses them when he can't avoid it.
When we are in contact with our feelings and needs, we humans no longer make good slaves and underlings.
How happy the station which every moment furnishes opportunities of doing good to thousands! How dangerous that which every moment exposes to the injuring of millions!
Seeing Anonymous primarily as a cybersecurity threat is like analyzing the breadth of the antiwar movement and 1960s counterculture by focusing only on the Weathermen.
Buddha taught kindness towards lower beings; and since then there has not been a sect in India that has not taught charity to all beings, even to animals. This kindness, this mercy, this charity - greater than any doctrine - are what Buddhism left to us.
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