What I want from my lovers is real, unadulterated love, and from my genuine workers I expect real work done.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of authenticity in both love and work relationships.
Meher Baba's quote highlights the values of sincerity and commitment in personal and professional relationships. He expresses a desire for genuine love from his partners, free from pretenses, and expects the same level of authenticity in the contributions of his workers. This reflects a broader principle that true connections, be they emotional or occupational, thrive on honesty and integrity.
In practice
In a speech about teamwork, I might say this quote to emphasize the need for genuine efforts.
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.
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.
Heβs dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if heβd be happy to lie there gazing at me forever.
Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at any moment on a rescue mission, but chose not to - because of us. At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.
I'll make my heaven in a lady's lap
And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us.
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.
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