"Even if we can't honestly long for love, we can long to long for love. That much is always open to us. If our prayers for love are insincere and mechanical, we can at least pray to become more sincere when we pray. If we cannot run towards the Lord, at least we can walk, and if we cannot walk, we can crawl. And even if we cannot crawl, we can pray for the ability, some day, to be able to crawl. And we may be surprised to find that even crawling is not necessary, because the Lord Himself has come to us and is carrying us on His back."                                                        -------                                                Eruch Jessawala   

    The only REAL KNOWLEDGE, is the knowledge that God is the inner dweller in good people and so-called bad, in saint and so-called sinner. This Knowledge requires you to help all equally as circumstances demand, without expectation of reward, and when compelled to take part in a dispute, to act without the slightest trace of enmity or hatred; to try to make others happy with brotherly or sisterly feeling for each one; to harm no one in thought, word, or deed, not even those who harm you. -------Meher Baba         

Mani=Meher Baba's sister   Mandali=intimate circle of close disciples       

   A story Mani would often recount was about Baba's dog, Peter. One day Mani was called into Mandali Hall by Baba. He was sitting in His usual chair and the men Mandali were sitting on the floor aroung Him. Baba gestured towards His feet and Mani noticed that Peter had crawled over toward Baba and was now sleeping there. Thinking that Baba wanted her to remove Peter she started forward, but Baba gestured to her to look at Peter and she noticed that the dog's legs were moving in his sleep. He was whining as well and Baba gestured , "He is dreaming. He is having a bad dream and is very afraid. He is dreaming that he is being attacked by big dogs and he is very scared. He does not know that he is safe and sleeping at my feet."

   Mani would then add, "That's how we all are. Just like Peter, we are sleeping safely at His feet, but we forget this. Like Peter, we so absorbed in our illusory dream that we take the illusory suffering to be real and feel the pain. Only on awakening do we experience the reality--that we were always safe with Him.

  "It helps, to remember during our moments of suffering, that we are only dreaming. He is always with us. Don't let the dream overwhelm you. Remember him all the time. Call out to Him. Talk to Him. Repeat His name. This weakens the effect of the dream. Have you ever had a dream where you are aware that it's a dream? It's like that. When you remember Him constantly, you become aware of the dream and it does not overwhelm you."

   from "The Real Treasure" by Rustom Falahati

"I believe that we, that this planet, hasn't seen its Golden Age. Everybody says its finished.....art's finished, rock and roll is dead, God is dead. Fuck that! This is my chance in the world. I didn't live back there in Mesopotamia, I wasn't there in the Garden of Eden, I wasn't there with Emperor Han, I'm here right now and I want now to be the greatest time. This is my Golden Age......if only each generation would realize that the time for greatness is right now when they're alive......the time to flower is now." ------Patti Smith

"You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit or it is nowhere." -----Ursula K. LeGuin, "The Dispossessed"                                         

 "Make everything in you an ear, each atom of your being, and you will hear at every moment what the source is whispering to you, without any need for my words or anyone elses. You are--we all are--the beloved of the Beloved, and in every moment, in every event of your life, the Beloved is whispering to you exactly what you need to hear and know. Who can ever explain this miracle? It simply is. Listen and you will discover it in every passing moment. Listen, and your whole life will become a conversation in thought and act between you and Him, directly, wordlessly, now and always."   -------------Jalaluddin Rumi

  "Never try to force your mind to check your thoughts. Thoughts may and will come. Do not try either to invite them or to drive them away. Let thoughts of lust, anger and greed come. They must come. Fire must reach its zenith, and then it will gradually subside. If you try to stop them, they will attack you again with double force. So let them come and be spent away. Do not turn them into actions. "----Meher Baba