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love or happiness, truth or fulfillment in yourself, you cannot
truly impart them to your audience. You cannot inspire, unless
you are yourself inspired; nor can you awaken love in insensitive
souls without yourself being pierced by it.
The actor has to realize that real and living beauty is made
manifest only by discovering and releasing the spiritual potential
within himself. Artifice can, no doubt, do much to heighten the
fresh and radiant beauty that is natural to youth. But this is
artifice, and not art, and such transient beauty is poles apart
from real beauty. Without vision your art will be shallow; do
not therefore hesitate to glean that vision from the Great Ones.
This will give you a living inspiration, bringing fulfillment in
your life.
So my message to the film world is: Do not play to the
gallery or the salary, but play also to the Infinite within. Live in
the presence of God, even while acting your part, so that you can
be true to yourself, to your partners and employers, and to the
larger and one Indivisible Life of which you are each an inseparable
part. If the world is a stage, God is the only producer, and you
can never be anything but a trivial actor if you are not in unison
with Him.
Song of the New Life
Listen to the silent words of Meher Baba;
The life of all lovers of God is in these words.
You who are serious about following the New Life
Will renounce your ephemeral existence.
We have taken to this life in which we rely only upon God;
Our will is strengthened by our oath.