...the more a person becomes spiritually minded or advances towards God, the more tolerant he becomes and the less differentiation he sees.
Interpretation
Spiritual growth leads to greater tolerance and unity with others.
This quote by Meher Baba suggests that as individuals foster their spiritual awareness and draw closer to a divine understanding, they naturally begin to embrace a mindset of tolerance. Instead of focusing on the differences that separate people, they perceive a deeper connection that underscores our shared humanity, diminishing the barriers that often divide us.
In practice
This quote can be shared in a group discussion on spiritual philosophies.
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.
Everything the Power of the World does is done in a circle.
Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner.
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedly, as in life.
I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who believe in the miracles of the Blessed Virgin than in the existence of the unconscious.
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