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.
Faith is in the soul. Belief is thought. Faith is so rich. Faith gives me my spiritual self.
If possessing a higher degree of intelligence does not entitle one human to use another for his or her own ends, how can it entitle humans to exploit non-humans?
I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I've had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral.
I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all idealism, and have landed in the region of the waxworks.
That the foundation of our national policy should be laid in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles, it is in vain to look for public virtue; it is, therefore, the duty of legislators to enforce, both by precept and example, the utility, as well as the necessity, of a strict adherence to the rules of distributive justice.
Most minds are the slaves of external circumstances, and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them.
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