The satisfaction derived from the fleeting things of life is not lasting; and our wants remain unfulfilled. There is thus a general sense of dissatisfaction accompanied by all kinds of worries.
Interpretation
True satisfaction comes from lasting and meaningful things rather than transient pleasures.
Meher Baba's quote emphasizes that the temporary joys we often seek in life do not provide enduring fulfillment. Instead, they leave us with a constant sense of dissatisfaction and worry, suggesting that deeper, more meaningful pursuits are essential for true contentment.
In practice
A motivational speech about finding lasting happiness over fleeting pleasures.
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.
Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.
For they are the knights of summer, and winter is coming.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I've read and know humanity a lot. There are moments that I admire in a person courage, intellect, hard work. These are the qualities I admire in an intellectual, in a writer, and there are so many people who have these things.
My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.
Occasionally, the whole class struggle may be summed up in the struggle for one word against another word. Certain words struggle amongst themselves as enemies. Other words are the site of an ambiguity: the stake in a decisive but undecided battle
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.