LOVE
All beings are beautiful seen through eyes of love
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Love is the rose. Lust is the thorn
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Those who ask for love in return are coolies demanding wages.
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Asked by L.H. how he could love God more, Baba replied
"Each is All."
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Life is a dream. I am an alarm clock here to waken you.
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Expand your love of all beings until even the thought of pulling
a leaf off of a tree gives you pain.
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To someone who asked if continuing to help a dog
afflicted with hip dysplasia into a car was interfering with the dog's muscle development
"Be content if your seva (service) is to lift a lame
lamb over a stile."
PATH TO LIBERATION
Love all beings. That is enough.
One needs no map to see the stars.
NONVIOLENCE
Why pluck a flower and hasten her death?
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To a follower who was still eating animals, Baba said
"God is in every creature. How can you cause such pain '
Nature can be modified by nurture; Dogs too can cease to relish
meat when they are trained to relish only vegetarian food.
It is wise to avoid restaurants in which animal flesh is served.
Be like the tongue which lies unharmed surrounded by soldier teeth.
FORGIVING
The actor who slaps you on stage waits behind the
curtain to congratulate you on your performance.
God looks on sin as a mother looks upon her baby's
first halting attempts to walk.
The tongue can wound for life.
SEXUAL ATTRACTION
Why does the dead ball moon shining with stolen light have more power on earth than the much greater self luminescent stars? Proximity.
Disciple: Should I become a sannyasi? (a celibate monk). Baba: If you had
wanted to you would have done so by now.
DETACHMENT
"If the fruit is green it will not fall to the ground even if you beat it with a sharp stick. When it is ripe it falls of its own accord in the silence of the night." (book response when I felt uncentered after distributing vegan fliers at a DC chain grocery)
CRITICISM
Re those who criticize holy beings: Diamonds shine
more brightly foiled by black velvet.
HEALTH CARE
Health care should not be a business.
(In Bangalore Inda, a free hospital which conducts
10,000 free heart operations a year is run by Baba's followers. American insurance companies
have sent many clients there.)
NONDUALITY
Those who speak most loudly about advaita (the equal oneness of all) are
the very ones who exaggerate the tiniest differences.
SILENCE
Be silent like the rose which communicates only through fragrance.
ECONOMY OF ACTION
The hour hand with 1 movement accomplishes as much as 3600 movements
JOY
Be like the stream which flows in ananda (joy) over rocks.
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