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The Birthday at the Center
When Baba visited the Center in May of 1958, He requested a birthday party. The invitees to the party were children—adults could only come if brought by a child. In considering how to write an article on Baba’s birthday at the Center, for a few seconds I was disappointed that Baba never celebrated His birthday…
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Coming Home to Paradise
Jonas is thirteen years old. Three years ago, I remember checking his mother Jessica, brother Ezra and him into the Center for their first overnight stay. Jessica had seen the Center on several occasions while driving by. She eventually did her research and had already watched Baba videos when she came into the Center with…
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The Eternal Date
On January 31 st , 1969, at 12:15 PM, Meher Baba dropped His physical form. The grief was unimaginable for so many of the lovers who had grown accustomed to His physical presence. And alongside that grief started to appear something else— a silent, brilliant, unchangeable truth that makes sense of the day’s name, “Amartithi,”…
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Gifts
For Meherjyoti, coming to the Center was Baba’s birthday gift— one that reminded her of another gift He gave long ago. Meherjyoti had wanted to visit the Center for decades, but it was so far from her home in India that she didn’t know when she’d possibly get a chance. Then, this year, her husband…
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Mehera: Baba’s Radha
How could one explain who Mehera is? Lovers of God strive to emulate her love, and philosophers expend their intellectual prowess to understand her love. But who better than Meher Baba to explain her so simply, “She is the very breath without which I cannot live.” Whenever God takes the human form, he has a…
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The Acorn that Bore the Mighty Oak
In 1968, one of the last things that Meher Baba signed was a children’s book that He sent as a gift for a group of children known as “Happy Club.” Happy Club began in 1966, when Elizabeth Patterson, one of the founders of the Center, and 13-year-old Wendy Haynes, drove to a local African-American neighborhood…
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Receiving His Gift
I left the room weeping after talking to Malcolm Clay. Malcolm worked at the center for 45 years, his job evolving until he was, for the last 30 years, in charge of the Center’s grounds. When I asked to talk to him about his life and work at the Center, I was not sure he…
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The Lustrous Beauty of Meher Baba’s Words
Plato said, “Beauty is the splendor of Truth.” According to Ward Parks, a scholar on Meher Baba’s words, the Truth and power in Baba’s words bring out His beauty. This month, the Center hosted a seminar on ‘Reincarnation and the Purpose of Life’ given by Ward Parks. Ward came to Baba in 1970 when he…
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This New Life is Endless
On October 16th, 1949, Meher Baba began His New Life. What does this mean? And Baba’s promise that “this New Life will live by itself eternally”? I do know that, seventy years ago, on an early rainy morning when it was still dark, Baba and twenty companions started down the road. A month before, Baba’s…
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Creating Access
I was in the Original Kitchen a few days ago when a young woman entered in a wheelchair. She was glowing. She had been to the Center numerous times over the years, but had never before been able to enter the Lagoon Cabin due to her disability. She told me that that morning, she was…