WILL THE EAST AND WEST EVER LOVE ONE ANOTHER?

 
In the ashram at Nasik, we Westerners had clashed only amongst ourselves. In Meherabad, however, Easterners and Westerners had to adjust their various habits and temperaments to each other. I recall Baba saying in the midst of one "crisis": "Will the East and West ever love one another?" (meaning our groups, of course.)

We discussed the point and finally decided that fundamentally we were the same, but our ways and ideas were so different that, superficially, friction was impossible to avoid; yet year by year that superficial friction became less and less and, finally, nonexistent.