Love is a reflection of God's unity in the world of duality.
It constitutes the entire significance of creation.
If love were excluded from life, all the souls in the world would assume complete
externality to each other; and the only possible relations and contacts in such a loveless
world would be superficial and mechanical. It is because of love that the contacts and
relations between individual souls become significant. It is love that gives meaning and
value to all the happenings in the world of duality. But while love gives meaning to the
world of duality, it is at the same time a standing challenge to duality. As love gathers
strength, it generates creative restlessness and becomes the main driving power of that
spiritual dynamic which ultimately succeeds in restoring to consciousness the original
unity of Being.
Meher Baba, Discourses pg.116
Renunciation of desires does not mean asceticism or a merely negative attitude to life.
Any such negation of life would make man inhuman. Divinity is not devoid of humanity. Spirituality must make man more human. It is a positive attitude of releasing all that is good, noble, and beautiful in man. It also contributes to all that is gracious and lovely in the environment. Spirituality does not require the external renunciation of worldly activities or the avoiding of duties and responsibilities. It only requires that, while performing the worldly activities or discharging the responsibilities arising from the specific place and position of the individual, the inner spirit should remain free from the burden of desires.
Meher Baba, Discourses pg.15
You are convinced of God's existence.
God exists; therefore God is to be sought, seen, and realized.
Do not search for God outside of you. God can only be found within you, for His only abode is the heart. But you have filled the abode with millions of strangers and He cannot enter, for God is shy of strangers. So unless you strip your abode of the millions of strangers you have filled it with, you cannot find God.
What are these strangers? They are your age-old desires -- your millions of wants. These are strangers to God, for incompleteness, in the form of wanting, is fundamentally foreign to God who is All-Sufficient and wanting in nothing -- His omniscience and omnipotence will not brook it. Honesty in your dealings will clean your heart of strangers. So push the tenants out of your abode, that is His, and you will see Him, find Him, and realize Him.
Meher Baba, 82 Family Letters pg.81
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