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THE FLOW AND SPIRIT OF LOVE

Meher Baba

 
Selfishness is the root cause of all troubles. It is all the more dangerous because under the subtle influence of selfishness, the worst evils are apt to assume false colors of chivalry, sacrifice, nobility, service and even "love." Of all the forces, that which can best overcome all difficulties is the love that knows how to give without necessarily bargaining for a return.

There is nothing that love cannot achieve and there is nothing that love cannot sacrifice. Pure love is matchless in majesty, it has no parallel in power and there is no darkness it cannot dispel. It is the undying flame that has set all life aglow.

The light of love is not free from its fire of sacrifices. Just as it can never be too late or too early to learn to love for the sake of love, there can be nothing too small or too big to be sacrificed or sacrificed for.

The flow of life, the flow of light and the flow of love are as much in the drop as in the Ocean. The smallest thing is as big as the biggest, and the biggest thing is as small as the smallest. It all depends upon the particular yardstick with which one measures.

My blessings to you, one and all.

 

GLIMPSES OF THE GOD-MAN, vol. 1, pp. 241-242, Bal Natu
1977 © Avatar Meher Baba Perpetual Public Charitable Trust

               

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