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Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.
Anthony de Mello
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Anthony de Mello
Age: 55 †
Born: 1931
Born: September 4
Died: 1987
Died: June 2
Philosopher
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Psychologist
Theologian
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Bombay
Wisdom
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As you identify less and less with the “me”, you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything. Do you know why? Because you are no longer afraid of being hurt or not liked. You no longer desire to impress anyone. Can you imagine the relief when you don't have to impress anybody anymore? Oh, what a relief. Happiness at last!
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Sin is a refusal to grow, a refusal to love, a refusal to get committed, to be concerned, and to take risks.
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Both what you run from- and what you yearn for - are within you.
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Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.
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Love springs from awareness.
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You do not have to change for God to love you.
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Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself.
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The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one.
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If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.
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A thought is a screen, not a mirror that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.
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Said the master: Where does your question come from?
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What is a loving heart? A loving heart is sensitive to the whole of life, to all persons a loving heart doesn't harden itself to any persons or things.
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You can never be free as long as you have an ego to defend.
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In many ways we were drugged when we were young. We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, approval, appreciation, applause.
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Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers only plastic flowers never die.
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We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything.
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Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance all evil comes from that.
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If you make me your authority, you harm yourself because you will not see things for yourself, and you harm me too because you refuse to see me as I am.
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If you want to know what it means to be happy, look at a flower, a bird, a child they are perfect images of the kingdom. For they live from moment to moment in the eternal now with no past and no future.
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All conflict comes from attachment.
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