The purpose of life is to realize God within ourselves. This can be done even whilst attending to our worldly duties.
Interpretation
Life's true aim is to connect with the divine within, even amid daily responsibilities.
This quote by Meher Baba emphasizes the importance of self-realization and the pursuit of a spiritual connection with God, asserting that this awareness can coexist with our everyday obligations. It encourages individuals to seek a deeper understanding of themselves and their relationship with the divine while staying engaged in the practical aspects of life.
In practice
During a motivational speech on personal growth, this quote can be used to inspire individuals to balance their spiritual and worldly lives.
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.
Our instinct may be to see the impossibility of tracking everything down as frustrating, dispiriting, perhaps even appalling, but it can just as well be viewed as almost unbearably exciting. We live on a planet that has a more or less infinite capacity to surprise. What reasoning person could possibly want it any other way?
We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is flat, plain, consistent.
No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.
because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.
Everything happens for a reason and a purpose, and it serves you.
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