"If we are dissatisfied with our environment, it is usually because we do not know how to adjust ourselves properly to the environment. Instead of thinking, how can I get out of this? and becoming discouraged and depressed, one should think, what is the lesson that I should learn from this experience?
"Poverty, if cheerfully endured, and providing one does one's best to find work, develops humility and patience, and can greatly assist spiritual progress. It is a test of character. I know it is difficult to be cheerful when starving, but all worthwhile things are difficult."
Baba concluded, "Even millionaires are unhappy unless they have learned to think and live rightly."
"Would a general acceptance of your doctrine of love bring about a more equitable distribution of money?" Collins asked.
"It must. Suppose we all loved each other as deeply as we now love the one whom we love best. The most natural desire of love is to share what one has with the beloved. The desire to share with everyone would produce a condition in which it would be a disgrace, rather than an honor, for anyone to possess more than anyone else."
Collins asked, "Do you expect to do this all at once?"
"No, but sooner than you think. People will respond," Baba replied.
"Why?"
"They will have to."
After thinking over what Baba had stated, Collins asked, "What are you going to do first?"
"Go to China. But I shall come right back. I am only staying there for a day. I want to lay a complete cable between the East and the West."
Frederick Collins was deeply impressed and very drawn to Baba, though he had been skeptical at first. His impressions of meeting Baba were published in Liberty magazine two months later.
Nadine Tolstoy came for Baba's darshan one day. Finally, after waiting a long time, she had her interview. Seeing him again, her faith in Baba was confirmed and she surrendered to him forever. "My intuition was unquestioning and sure," she recorded. "I saw Christ before me as he was seated on the couch in the expression of all his figure and divinely lit-up face, in his eyes beaming love ... It was the fulfillment of a long-awaited meeting, the climax of my life."
Leaving the room, she loudly shouted, "JESUS CHRIST!" and the onlookers turned and gazed at her. Nadine later explained her experience, "Something within me recognized, in this dear shape of Meher Baba, the incarnation of Jesus Christ of Nazareth. The unbelievable had become a revealed fact. I gave my will to his Will, my life to his cause of Truth and Love, knowing that to love the Truth means to live it."