Raine VS The End of the World (68 page)

A Few Quotes from Avatar Meher Baba

“As a single object seems to multiply itself to him who is drunk to excess, so Unity appears as plurality to those who are intoxicated with the wine of egoism.

“The satisfaction derived from the fleeting things of life is not lasting; and our wants remain unfulfilled. There is thus a general sense of dissatisfaction accompanied by all kinds of worries.”

“The universe is the outcome of imagination.

Then why try to acquire knowledge of the

imaginative universe instead of

plumbing the depths

of your real Self?”

“No amount of prayer or meditation

can do what helping others can do.”

“Don’t worry, be happy.”

“There are very few things in the mind which eat up as much energy as worry. It is one of the most difficult things not to worry about anything. Worry is experienced when things go wrong, but in relation to past happenings it is idle merely to wish that they might have been otherwise. The frozen past is what it is, and no amount of worrying is going to make it other than what it has been. But the limited ego-mind identifies itself with its past, gets entangled with it and keeps alive the pangs of frustrated desires. Thus worry continues to grow into the mental life of man until the ego-mind is burdened by the past. Worry is also experienced in relation to the future when this future is expected to be disagreeable in some way. In this case it seeks to justify itself as a necessary part of the attempt to prepare for coping with the anticipated situations. But, things can never be helped merely by worrying. Besides, many of the things which are anticipated never turn up, or if they do occur, they turn out to be much more acceptable than they were expected to be. Worry is the product of feverish imagination working under the stimulus of desires. It is a living through of sufferings which are mostly our own creation. Worry has never done anyone any good, and it is very much worse than mere dissipation of psychic energy, for it substantially curtails the joy and fullness of life.”

- Avatar Meher Baba

Notes

Joseph Victor Choi was born in Metro Manila, Philippines and has shuttled back and forth constantly between his twin hometowns – Manila and Los Angeles. He studied at Southville International School and Colleges, Santa Monica College, and the California Institute of the Arts, where he graduated with a B.A. in the Film/Video program. He currently lives in Mariposa, California, but travels all over the Golden State herding goats, editing films and videos, writing game reviews for Too Much Gaming (
www.2muchgaming.com
) and fan fiction (
https://www.fanfiction.net/u/550553/sandwichsupernova
), listening obsessively to Rush, and doing just about whatever it is that nerds do.

Joe’s favorite video games are
Final Fantasy VIII
,
StarFox 64, The Legend of Zelda
series,
Child of Eden,
Bayonetta,
the
Metal Gear Solid
series, and most especially the
Smash Bros.
series.

He can be contacted at
[email protected]
.

Notes