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Agnes Baron
- Oct 14, 2021 “You don’t know how hard I had to work to prevent a catastrophe.” - Avatar Meher Baba
- Mar 10, 2021 "I don't love everybody - what am I going to do about it? - Agnes Baron to Avatar Meher Baba
- Oct 28, 2020 "I loved it when Agnes was our sub for the day!"
- May 4, 2020 Agnes Baron Meets Meher Baba for the First Time
- Oct 5, 2017 Agnes Baron's 1982 Trip to India
- Sep 11, 2017 Karma Yoga Is a Central Practice in Agnes Baron's Life
- Sep 11, 2017 Vedanta Leads Agnes Baron to Meher Baba
- Aug 20, 2017 A Balancing of the Light and the Dark
- Jan 10, 2017 Cherished Memories of Caring for Agnes Baron
- Oct 20, 2016 50 Years Later: Agnes Baron Serendipitously Meets an Old Friend
- Oct 4, 2016 "I Bullied them into Funding the DART Program"
- Sep 12, 2016 The Long Reach of the Hopi
- Jan 13, 2016 Hiss, But Don't Bite
- Jan 8, 2016 How Agnes Baron Captured My Heart
- Jan 8, 2016 My Last Goodbye to Agnes Baron
- Dec 29, 2015 The Second Loincloth
- Jan 15, 2015 Agnes Baron - A Short Biography
- Jan 8, 2015 "Brown? Brown! You Got Me a Brown Car?"
- Feb 7, 2012 Cuts, Scrapes & Bruises
- Oct 15, 2010 Keeping Agnes Company While Others Cleanup After the Fire
- Oct 8, 2010 Will You Allow Meher Baba to Burn You Out?
- Aug 16, 2010 The Heart Gate - Years Earlier
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Archives
- Feb 8, 2023 "You have no idea what just one scrap of My sadra will mean to the world in the future.” – Avatar Meher Baba
- Apr 19, 2020 "Meher Baba used us all like puppets on a string..."
- Apr 17, 2020 The Gift of a Touched and Blessed Photograph of Meher Baba
- Mar 4, 2015 Surprise Discovery of Meher Mount Photos from 1956
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Artwork
- Jan 9, 2023 Creator of Life-Giving Water - 101 Names of God
- Oct 4, 2018 "I can't imagine a better painting for Meher Mount."
- Jun 22, 2016 Meher Mount Inspires En Plein Air Artists
- May 15, 2014 A Hologram of Meher Baba in Ojai Art Exhibit
- Jun 27, 2013 Will David's Painting of Meher Baba at Meher Mount
- Jul 24, 2012 Australian Paints Meher Baba's Visit to Meher Mount
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Avatar Meher Baba
- Mar 29, 2024 "They are all indivisibly longing for the same God." - Avatar Meher Baba
- Feb 20, 2024 "How is it that you [Meher Baba] get born?"
- Jan 26, 2024 What Amartithi Means to Me
- Jan 21, 2024 "We don't feel Baba's absence, but we surely miss Him" - Eruch Jessawala
- Dec 31, 2023 The Struggle for Peace and Happiness
- Dec 19, 2023 How to Love God
- Nov 6, 2023 Meher Baba on War
- Oct 14, 2023 “Almost all are puzzled by Baba’s New Life…”
- Feb 22, 2023 "I am the Divine Beloved worthy of being loved because I am love." - Avatar Meher Baba
- Jan 27, 2023 Avatar Meher Baba — The Eternal Shepherd
- Nov 1, 2022 "Just Being in His Presence" - The 1962 East-West Gathering of Avatar Meher Baba
- May 16, 2022 Why Does the Avatar Suffer? "...I Suffer Because I Love."
- Feb 17, 2022 The Ideal Prayer to the Lord
- Jan 1, 2022 A New Year's Resolution Worth Remembering
- Apr 2, 2021 Remembering Meher Baba in Simple, Ordinary Moments
- Feb 23, 2021 "I am wherever My lovers are." - Avatar Meher Baba
- Dec 24, 2020 "My love flows eternally to all humanity..." - Avatar Meher Baba
- Jun 12, 2020 "All narrowness limits love." - Avatar Meher Baba
- Apr 20, 2020 “Your beloved Baba looks on you and yours, and will not let you falter."
- Mar 19, 2020 "If you stop worrying, God has to begin to worry for you!" - Avatar Meher Baba
- Feb 18, 2019 "I am never born, I never die."
- Dec 27, 2017 "Have no anxiety as to the future!"
- Dec 23, 2017 "There Is Nothing that Love Cannot Achieve..."
- Sep 3, 2017 Meher Baba's New Life
- Feb 6, 2017 Meher Baba's Messages for His Birthday
- Jan 26, 2017 Mehera's Message at the First Amartithi
- Sep 29, 2016 What Has One Gained in Being with Meher Baba?
- Apr 11, 2016 "To His Disciples Meher Baba Says..." - A Poem by Mani S. Irani
- Feb 1, 2016 Meher Baba's Mother Has an Auspicious Dream
- Jan 22, 2016 Amartithi Is a Joyous Sharing of Meher Baba's Presence
- Oct 21, 2015 Why Do We Suffer?
- Sep 14, 2015 Spirituality Includes the Whole of Life
- Aug 27, 2015 Playing Cards with Meher Baba
- Apr 30, 2015 Divine Will and Free Will
- Jan 19, 2015 "I am not this body."
- Dec 30, 2014 "Where Will You Look for Me? I Am Hiding in Your Heart..." - Avatar Meher Baba
- Dec 24, 2014 "I have come to sow the seed of love in your hearts..."
- Oct 14, 2014 Reincarnation According to Avatar Meher Baba
- Sep 27, 2014 The Early Ashram at Manzil-e-Meem
- Sep 8, 2014 What Was It Like to Be with Meher Baba?
- Sep 4, 2014 "Life is so beautiful. It is meant to be happy." - Avatar Meher Baba
- Jul 4, 2013 Meher Baba's Comments on America's Spiritual Potential
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Baba's Tree
- Jun 30, 2022 The Bees Are Calling
- Jun 13, 2022 “Oh yeah, right, dad. Sure. It’s a tree. Big deal.”
- Apr 5, 2022 "Pink and blue, I love you." - Mehera J. Irani
- Apr 5, 2022 Their Laughter Was Music to His Ears
- Apr 4, 2022 "The sky is a tree, and the stars its branches ever reaching for us, like God."
- Oct 12, 2021 "Baba, I've always thought of this as Your tree." - Agnes Baron
- Jan 8, 2020 "One can only imagine what this grove might look like in 700 Years..."
- Nov 9, 2019 From Fire, Baba's Tree Grove Emerges
- Feb 12, 2015 Baba's Tree Featured in Article on "Ojai's Trees"
- Jul 7, 2013 "An infinite number of branches spread out from me." - Avatar Meher Baba
- Oct 13, 2011 A Few Moments of Respite Under Baba's Tree
- Oct 8, 2011 That Cathedral Tree
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Baba's Tree & Fire
- Mar 14, 2020 Baba's Tree Comes Out of Seclusion as the Coronavirus Is Declared a Pandemic
- Jun 28, 2019 A New ‘Sadra’ for Baba’s Tree
- Feb 22, 2019 Saving Baba's Tree: Burned branches sheltered mystic
- Feb 11, 2019 Baba's Tree springs back to life after being nearly destroyed by Thomas Fire
- Feb 8, 2019 Baba's Tree - One Year After the Thomas Fire
- Mar 5, 2018 Fate of Baba's Tree Is Front Page News
- Feb 19, 2018 Baba's Tree, burned in Thomas Fire, fights for survival in Ojai
- Feb 8, 2018 Group mounting significant effort to try to save Baba's Tree
- Jan 25, 2018 Baba's Tree Survival Plan
- Jan 24, 2018 Baba's Tree in Seclusion
- Jan 20, 2018 Signs of Life in Baba's Tree After the Thomas Fire
- Jan 11, 2018 Fire Burns Baba's Tree - Twice
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Baba's Tree Wood
- Jan 18, 2019 The Great Dhuni Stick Harvest - A One-of-a-Kind Dhuni Day
- Jun 29, 2018 Baba's Tree Ashes - A Keepsake and a Connection
- May 15, 2018 Damaged in Thomas Fire, Baba's Tree limbs live on as benches at Ojai's Meher Mount
- May 8, 2018 Baba's Tree repurpose effort is firmly seated in history
- Apr 24, 2018 Fire Is a Creative Force - Three Benches from Baba's Tree
- Mar 21, 2018 Baba's Tree - Saving the Fallen Wood
- Mar 13, 2018 Baba's Tree - Gathering the Ash
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Baba's Walkway
- Sep 15, 2018 Baba's Walkway Emerges After the Thomas Fire
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Birds
- Apr 13, 2023 Enjoy a little armchair birdwatching
- Dec 14, 2020 Condors Soar Over Meher Mount
- Sep 14, 2019 "I've never seen this happen..." - Ojai Raptor Center
- Apr 15, 2019 The Birds Are Ready - Their Songs Fill the Air
- Mar 21, 2019 The Pacific Flyway - The Annual Bird Migration
- Sep 5, 2018 "Let's Hope the Birds Move in Soon!"
- Oct 10, 2013 Woodpeckers in Residency in Baba’s Tree
- Aug 23, 2010 Encounters of the Bird Kind - The Owl
- Apr 14, 2009 The Audubon Society Goes Bird Watching at Meher Mount
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Caretakers
- Feb 13, 2023 My Life Comes Full Circle
- Nov 18, 2022 The only word I can think of to sum up the day is 'gratitude'
- Sep 1, 2022 "Hellfire and Damnation" - Stories of Keeping Meher Mount for Meher Baba from Agnes Baron's Life
- Aug 31, 2022 "Luck, Hard Work and Dedication" - Stories of Keeping Meher Mount for Meher Baba from Elizabeth Arnold
- Aug 28, 2022 "Footprints on the Soul" - Stories of Keeping Meher Mount for Meher Baba from Ray Johnston
- Nov 25, 2019 My Beautiful Childhood Caring for Meher Mount
- Oct 10, 2019 "Meher Baba will remind you that He does everything."
- Aug 31, 2019 The Two-Year Saga of Finding Caretakers
- Feb 26, 2018 A Fond Farewell - Goodbye to the Glaskys
- Sep 4, 2017 The Caretakers' Life at Meher Mount
- May 13, 2014 Caretaker Transitions: The Pull of Destiny
- Aug 17, 2011 A Calling Answered
- Jun 1, 2010 Being Caretakers at Meher Mount Is a Calling
- Oct 31, 2005 An Opportunity to Serve Meher Baba
- May 1, 2003 Meet the New Caretakers at Meher Mount
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Christmas Messages
- Dec 24, 2019 Grant Us to See What the Wise Men Saw
- Dec 22, 2018 Christmas Greetings from Meher Baba - 1958
- Dec 24, 2016 Christmas Morning in 1962 with Meher Baba
- Dec 17, 2015 Meher Baba's 1935 Christmas Telegram
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Darshan Courtyard
- Oct 7, 2024 The Baba Room Becomes the Darshan Courtyard
- Jul 10, 2021 The Special Darshan Dhuni Film
- Jul 9, 2021 The Darshan Dhuni Quotes & Contributors
- Jun 16, 2021 Sharing Personally Meaningful Meher Baba Quotes - Three Videos
- May 11, 2021 Meher Baba Calls Everyone into the 'Baba Room' - 1956
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Gratitude
- Nov 26, 2021 Thanking Meher Baba - Perspectives from His Close Disciples
- Nov 20, 2018 Gratitude Is the Art of Accepting Life, Moment by Moment, in Whatever Situation One Finds Oneself
- Nov 24, 2015 Remembering to Thank Meher Baba
- Nov 24, 2015 Two Spiritual Secrets
- Oct 28, 2015 Thank You for All the Joy and Pain in My Life
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History
- Jul 16, 2023 The Los Angeles Times Interviews Meher Baba - 1956
- Nov 9, 2022 What to do with Meher Mount? - Keeping Meher Mount for Meher Baba
- Nov 9, 2022 Groups Wanting Meher Mount for Their Own Use - Keeping It for Meher Baba
- Oct 14, 2022 Hell, Fire and Damnation - Keeping Meher Mount for Meher Baba
- Oct 12, 2022 The New Life Fire - Keeping Meher Mount through Hellfire and Damnation
- Oct 17, 2021 “It was a hot day, so I thought I would go with them…” – Agnes Baron
- Oct 10, 2021 Newspapers Announce the Founding of Meher Mount - 1946
- Oct 7, 2021 Finding Meher Mount - A Dramatic Reading
- Jul 16, 2021 The New Life Center Leads to the Founding of Meher Mount
- Oct 5, 2017 Agnes Baron's 1982 Trip to India
- Sep 11, 2017 Jean Adriel Writes Avatar - A Biography of Meher Baba
- May 23, 2017 "...the personal disaster, for some years foretold by me, took place..."
- Jul 15, 2016 1956 World Events & Meher Baba
- Jul 1, 2015 The Month of Silence at Meher Mount - July 1949
- Jan 15, 2015 Agnes Baron - A Short Biography
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Master Plan
- Jul 20, 2022 "Can't decide to go to expense of new pump or to drill a new well..." - Agnes Baron
- Nov 21, 2018 Meher Mount's Master Plan Guides Fire Recovery
- Nov 1, 2017 Stone Signs & Markers Guide the Way
- Jun 25, 2017 The Legacy of Weeds 'n' Water
- May 29, 2014 The Topa Topa Patio Takes Advantage of the Views
- Nov 1, 2013 Boundary Dispute Is Settled
- Aug 7, 2012 The Workshop - The Need for a Master Plan
- Aug 7, 2012 The Workshop - It All Started with a New Tractor
- Jun 1, 2012 The Master Plan Is Adopted
- Oct 25, 2008 An Answer to Meher Baba's Question
- Sep 15, 2008 The Symbolism of the Meher Mount Logo
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Meher Baba at Meher Mount
- Jun 29, 2024 "And Take Me With You" - Avatar Meher Baba
- Jul 28, 2022 "What is being grown? Are there orchards?" - Meher Baba
- Oct 27, 2021 "Now, go out and see the view and try to love Baba through nature." - Avatar Meher Baba
- Oct 11, 2021 Agnes Baron Remembers Meher Baba's 1956 Visit
- May 11, 2021 Meher Baba Calls Everyone into the 'Baba Room' - 1956
- Mar 10, 2021 "...all that is good and all that is bad within you comes out in sparks..." - Avatar Meher Baba
- Jul 26, 2019 "...here today, we feel relaxed, happy." - Avatar Meher Baba, Meher Mount
- Jul 12, 2019 Film of Meher Baba at Meher Mount - 1956
- Jul 24, 2015 The Fruit Salad Story - Bunty Bernstein and Meher Baba's Visit to Meher Mount
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Music
- Jan 29, 2024 "Feeling so blessed as Baba's guest" - A Music Video
- Mar 21, 2022 "By the end, we were all singing along, releasing our minds and allowing Meher Baba to enter our souls."
- Dec 9, 2021 In Recognition of the Same Eternal One...
- Jul 31, 2020 "So beautiful and uplifting." - Music in Celebration of Meher Baba
- Mar 22, 2020 "There's a Heartache Following Me" - One of Meher Baba's Favorite Songs
- Jan 27, 2015 Meher Baba Asked for "Begin the Beguine" to Be Played When He Dropped His Body
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Nature
- Oct 1, 2023 Francis (the deer) Visits St. Francis (the statue)
- Apr 5, 2022 "Do you like tarantulas?"
- Sep 2, 2020 Nature's Beauty - A Trove of Tiny Treasures
- Apr 1, 2020 A Walk in the Woods
- Mar 28, 2019 The Spring 'Super Bloom' Graces Meher Mount
- Jun 16, 2011 Celebrating the Rhythm of Nature
- Sep 5, 2010 Encounters of the Animal Kind - The Mountain Lion
- Aug 23, 2010 Encounters of the Animal Kind - The Fox
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Photography
- Sep 2, 2020 Nature's Beauty - A Trove of Tiny Treasures
- Apr 20, 2016 Amartithi Brings Rain, Wind and Dramatic Skies
- Apr 19, 2013 Guests Are Engulfed in the Clouds
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Poetry
- Feb 24, 2023 "This sadra speaks of the One, eternal and infinite..."
- Jan 12, 2023 "As water are the lovers of God..." - Francis Brabazon, Poet
- Sep 24, 2022 "Moments Filled with Wonder" - Poetry Inspired by the Clouds
- Mar 18, 2022 "I felt like I was breathing new life, new inspiration with every inhalation."
- Apr 2, 2017 "Under Baba's Tree" - A Poem
- Apr 11, 2016 "To His Disciples Meher Baba Says..." - A Poem by Mani S. Irani
- Jun 30, 2011 "Summer Song"
- Apr 28, 2011 "April Poppies"
- Aug 16, 2010 "With far seeing eyes the hawk slides up the wind..."
- Aug 9, 2010 Meher Mount Inspires Young Poet
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Publications
- Sep 6, 2016 Books on Meher Baba's Life & Words
- Jun 25, 2015 The Unstruck Music of Meher Baba - A Source of Daily Inspiration
- Apr 23, 2015 The Awakener: A Journal Devoted to Meher Baba
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Silence
- Jul 5, 2024 "I speak more eloquently through gestures..." - Avatar Meher Baba
- Jul 9, 2020 Meher Baba Was the Master of Expression and the Perfection of Mime
- Jul 10, 2019 Meher Baba's Silence Started on July 10, 1925
- Jul 8, 2019 Why Meher Baba Observed Silence
- Jul 7, 2017 How Silence Day Started
- Jul 1, 2015 The Month of Silence at Meher Mount - July 1949
- Talks
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Thomas Fire
- Jul 4, 2018 Break Out the Champagne - Fire Recovery Is Complete
- Jul 3, 2018 The Thomas Fire - A Silver Lining
- Jan 16, 2018 Drone Photos Capture Fire Damage at Meher Mount
- Jan 10, 2018 Mapping the Thomas Fire Damage at Meher Mount
- Dec 26, 2017 Coins on the Mountain
- Dec 15, 2017 Totally Random or Divinely Orchestrated? An Update on the Thomas Fire
- Dec 11, 2017 The Community Responds with Love & Prayers
- Dec 11, 2017 Meher Mount Survives Largest Wildfire in California History
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Visitor Stories
- Jun 30, 2022 The Bees Are Calling
- May 11, 2022 A Change of Heart
- May 6, 2022 "I felt so blessed and refreshed..."
- Apr 2, 2022 Spring Break at Meher Mount
- Jan 6, 2022 Fire Prevention, Even in the Rain
- Nov 30, 2021 A Thanksgiving Day Filled with Gratitude
- Sep 28, 2021 A Fence, A Fawn, and the Gift of Calm
- Dec 9, 2020 “The silence was so intense… It filled me completely.”
- Dec 9, 2020 "This spot will be in our hearts forever."
- Dec 9, 2020 "It was meant for me to come here."
- Jun 25, 2020 The Gift of a Quiet Day of Refuge at Meher Mount
- May 25, 2020 An Oasis in the Time of a Pandemic
- Jun 4, 2017 Now for the First Time, I Visit Meher Mount
- Nov 28, 2015 Meher Baba Invites His Dearest Friends
- Apr 29, 2015 Musing on the Young Adult Sahavas: 2000
- Apr 29, 2015 Young Adult Sahavas at Meher Mount: 1998
- Dec 13, 2014 Winter Is My Favorite Time of Year to Visit
- Dec 1, 2014 What Meher Mount Means to Me
- Mar 14, 2011 Visitors Are Inexplicably Drawn to Meher Mount
- Feb 16, 2011 The 911 Call
- Nov 3, 2010 Could I Give Agnes Baron's Friend a Ride to Meher Mount?
- Jun 1, 2009 Oak Grove Students Visit Meher Mount
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Volunteer Days
- May 28, 2019 "I quite enjoyed a day out in the field."
- Jan 18, 2019 The Great Dhuni Stick Harvest - A One-of-a-Kind Dhuni Day
- May 23, 2018 "Hard, hard work..." Getting Ready for Fire Inspection & Visitors
- Mar 13, 2018 Neither Rain, Nor Drizzle, Nor Fog Stops Meher Mount's Volunteers
- Feb 9, 2018 Thomas Fire No Match for Meher Baba and His Lovers
- Nov 29, 2015 Fire Prevention Improves Walking Trails
- Sep 6, 2012 Progress in Eliminating Yellow Starthistle
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Volunteer Stories
- Oct 15, 2020 "What a Precious and Blessed Six Weeks!"
- May 13, 2020 "It was a unique experience - with Baba so near in this tranquility..."
- Nov 4, 2019 "We Should Have Known It Wasn't Going to be a Smooth Ride"
- Oct 1, 2018 A Little Anniversary Graffiti
- Sep 20, 2018 "It is evening, the sun is about to set, and even the busy hummingbirds are settling in."
- Jan 31, 2014 A Promise Fulfilled - Almost 50 Years Later
- Aug 3, 2010 An Adventure at the Well
- Jul 21, 2010 The Well - To the Rescue
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Volunteers
- Mar 31, 2017 Tips for Being a Volunteer
- Mar 31, 2017 The Personal Benefits of a Being a Volunteer
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Water
- Mar 13, 2023 "I have blessed you with conviction." - Avatar Meher Baba
- Jan 26, 2023 "Regard God as water and the longing for water as love..." - Avatar Meher Baba
- Jan 9, 2023 Songs of Water & Spirituality
- Jan 7, 2023 "Let your love flow ceaselessly..." - Avatar Meher Baba
- Jan 6, 2023 "The fact that one cannot live without water means water is life." - Mani S. Irani
- Jan 3, 2023 "In different ways, I am taking out the dirty water from everyone." - Avatar Meher Baba
- Jan 3, 2023 "Do you know how much trouble I have to take to make this water? "
- Jan 3, 2023 The Spiritual Significance of Water
- Nov 23, 2016 The Water Diviner & The Spiritual Master