“Through endless time God's greatest gift is continuously given in silence. But whenmankind becomes completely deaf to the thunder of His Silence God incarnates as Man.”

— Meher Baba

44 : God Alone Is, p. 74.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)

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Indian mystic 1894–1969

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