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Spirit
Spiritual Guides...
There Once Was A Note... Listen
Pure and Easy
We all know success, when we all find our own dreams
And our love is enough to knock down any walls
And the future's been seen, as men try to realize
The simple secret of the note in us all
There once was a note,...listen
© Pete Townshend
Avatar Meher Baba
There is no one who ever walked the earth that could be more pure
and selfless than this man. He is love, beauty, grace and compassion
personified. Meher Baba is my chosen spiritual guide, and if I could love him
one tenth as much as he ought to be loved I would be blessed indeed!
It was through Pete Townshend that I "discovered" Meher Baba. Pete had written
many lyrics that, upon examination, were "spiritually inclined." As I searched
for the meaning behind the words (in about 1970), I found out about Pete Townshend's
interest in Meher Baba. I then started to learn more about Meher Baba from
various sources.
As I child I felt that I really loved God, and that God was right there with me,
in the breeze, in the trees, in the flowers, in the clouds, in the rain, in the
sunshine... surrounding me. But when I was about 15 or 16, I began to question
God's existence, which started me on a search "to know." I began reading Herman
Hesse novels, studying the theories of Carl Jung, reading about metaphysics and
positive thinking, writing poetry in my shiny black room!
Then, in 1975, after years of delving into "mysticism," I suddenly found
myself feeling like I was being drawn down into a vast ocean, into absolutely
pure aquamarine water, with the most beautiful bubbles effervescing around me.
I was immersed in God's love. Then I surfaced, looking up into the vastness of
a brilliant blue sky. And suddenly, after years of reading books about him,
I knew that Meher Baba was God in a human body. However, it wasn't an
intellectual sort of knowing, it was an instinctual knowing... something deep
inside me became convinced of His divinity.
My mind and heart is certain that Meher Baba is the Avatar, the Highest of the High. If an interested person takes the time to
examine Meher Baba and His teachings, they will find a most beautiful and
selfless man. They may, or may not, also realize that He is God.
"To penetrate into the essence of all being and significance, and to
release
the fragrance of that inner attainment for the guidance and benefit of
others,
by expressing in the world of forms--truth, love, purity and
beauty--
this is the sole game which has any intrinsic and absolute worth.
All other happenings,
incidents and attainments, in themselves, can have no
lasting importance."
- Meher Baba
"Day of Silence"
You and me,
We are part of a single soul,
And one day we will know we're one,
Sit and listen the word will come.
There is nothing beneath the sun,
That we can't realize.
And one peaceful night
Will remind us it's all right
And we'll figure we owe it all
To one life of silence.
- Pete Townshend
Quotes by Avatar Meher Baba
More About Avatar Meher Baba
Hazrat Inayat Khan
Because music means so much to me I "bumped into" this Sufi spiritual teacher.
He has a great book called "The Music of Life", a collection of his
teachings about sound, vibrations, rhythm, harmony and the creative process.
There are also many other volumes of his teachings available which are equally
inspirational and insightful. Hazrat Inayat Khan's teachings about "positive
thinking" have been extremely helpful in my life. My favorite book of his is
titled "Mastery Through Accomplishment."
"Music touches our innermost being and in that way produces new life,
a life that gives exaltation to the whole being, raising it to that perfection
in which lies the fulfillment of our life."
- Hazrat Inayat Khan
excerpted from "The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan, Volume II"
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