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“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”

Hassan returned the smile. Except his didn't look forced.
"I know," he said. And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

“Why did the man kills his wife? In fact, why did he ever have to feel sad to shed tears? Couldn’t he have just smelled an onion?”

A man found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. Even tho he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife’s slain body in his arms.

“There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft.” - Baba

They are no longer affected by the changes on Earth, and when they hear of wars, and rumors of wars, their peace os not disturbed, and where others grow angry and cynical and quarrelsome, they bestow compassion and love. Through appearances may contradict it, they know that the world is progressing.

Entering Into the Infinite

For such people there is no more regret, or disappointment, or remorse, for where all selfishness has ceased, these sufferings cannot be; and whatever happens to them, they know that it is for their own good and they are content, being no longer the servant of self but the servant of the Supreme...

The Realization of Selfless Love

“Train your mind in strong, impartial, and gentle thought; train your heart in purity and compassion: train your tongue to silence and to true and stainless speech; so shall you enter the way of holiness and peace and shall ultimately realize immortal love.”

The Acquisition of Spiritual Power

“To grow in self-control, in patience, in equanimity, is to grow in strength and power; and you can only thus grow by focusing your consciousness upon a principle.”

Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul;
Truth is the only angel that can bid the gates unroll;
And when he comes to call thee, arise and follow fast;
His way may lie through darkness, but it leads to light at last.

The Two Masters, Self and Truth

There is one quality which preeminently distinguishes people of truth from the people of self, and that is humility. Not only to be free from vanity, stubbornness, and egotism but to regard one’s own opinions as of no value, this indeed is tru humility.

Those who are immersed in self regard their own opinions as truth, and the opinions of others as error.

Five Great Meditations

1. Meditation of Love
2. Meditation of Pity
3. Meditation of Joy
4. Meditation of Impurity
5. Meditation of Serenity

Lose yourself in the welfare of others; forget yourself in all that you do; this is the secret of abounding happiness.

The heights by great men reached and kept,
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.

Taking the first step with a good thought, the second with a good word, and the third with a good deed, I entered Paradise.” And you also may enter into Paradise by pursuing the same course. It is not beyond; it is here. It is realized only by the unselfish. It is known in its fullness only to the pure in heart.

Happiness is that inward state of perfect satisfaction which is joy and peace, and from which all desire is eliminated. The satisfaction that results from gratified desire is brief and illusionary and is always followed by an increase demand for gratification.

When you are willing to admit that your unhappiness is the result of your own selfishness, you will not be far from the gates of Paradise; but so long as you are convinced that it is the selfishness of others thais robbing you of joy, so long will you remain a prisoner in your self-created purgatory.

Most people will admit that selfishness is the cause of all the unhappiness in the world, but they fall under the soul-destroying delusion that is somebody else’s selfishness and not theirs.

If you will become possessed of this faith, you will not need to trouble about your success or failure, and success will come. You will not need to become anxious about results but will work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.

You must pursue your purpose with a fearless and restful heart, believing that the future will satisfy your every thought and effort. You must believe that the laws of the universe can never fail.

The Secret of Health, Success, and Power

By the power of faith every enduring work is accomplished. You must have faith in the Supreme, faith in the overruling law, faith in your work and in your power to accomplish that work... You must follow under all circumstances the highest promptings within you. You must always be true to the divine self, to rely upon the inward light, the inward voice.

Whatever position in life you may be, before you can hope to enter into any measure of success, usefulness, and power, you must learn how to focus your thought-forces by cultivating calmness and repose.

Faith and purpose constitute the motive power of life. There is nothing that a strong faith and an unflinching purpose may not accomplish. By the daily exercise of silent faith, the thought-forces are gathered together, and by the daily strengthening of silent purpose, those forces are directed toward the object of accomplishment.

To mentally deny evil is not sufficient; it must, by daily practice, be risen above and understood. To mentally affirm the good is inadequate; it must, by unwavering endeavor, be entered into and comprehended.

The Silent Power of Thought: Controlling and Directing One’s Forces

To overcome these negative conditions is to enter into a life of power, is to cease to be a slave and to become a master, and there is only one way by which they can be overcome, and that is by steady and persistent growth in inward knowledge.

Money does not constitute true wealth, or position, or power, and to rely upon it alone is to stand upon a slippery place… Your true wealth is your stock of virtue, and your true power the uses to which you put it. Rectify your heart and you will rectify your life.

If you would become truly and permanently prosperous, you must first become virtuous. It is therefore unwise to aim directly at prosperity, to make it the one object of life, to reach out greedily for it. To do this is to ultimately defeat yourself. But rather aim at self-perfection, make useful and unselfish service the object of your life, and ever reach out hands of faith toward the supreme and unalterable Good.