To love God as he ought to be loved, we must love for God and die for God, knowing that the goal of life is to know God, and find him as our own self.

Meher Baba said: - To love God as he ought to be loved, we must love for God and die for God, knowing that the goal of life is to know God, and find him as our own self.

To realize God is to attain liberation from the bondage of illusion. 

Live only to find and realize your true identity with your beloved God.

The energy which is expended in mere thinking, taking or writing is like steam which escapes through the whistle of railway engines …

That is why the sages have always insisted on practice rather than theory. This applies particularly to those who want to know and realize God. 

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-----It means one has to one has to know and realize his innermost self is God and identify it has his true identity to find liberation from the bondage of the illusion of birth, life, death and world[duality]. The goal of our life is to find and realize our identity with our beloved God, which is our innermost self. --FORMLESS PATH