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.
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.
That prayer has great power which a person makes with all his might. It makes a sour heart sweet, a sad heart merry, a poor heart rich, a foolish heart wise, a timid heart brave, a sick heart well, a blind heart full of sight, a cold heart ardent. It draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up into the fullness of God; it brings together two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love.
Those who think they 'know' from the beginning will never in fact _x000D_ come to know anything.
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