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Don't ask the world to change....you change first.

Anthony de Mello

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Anthony de Mello
Age: 55 †
Born: 1931
Born: September 4
Died: 1987
Died: June 2
Philosopher
Priest
Psychologist
Theologian
Writer
Bombay
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Change
Firsts
First
World

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Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.
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The Master was exceedingly gracious to university dons who visited him, but he would never reply to their questions or be drawn into their theological speculations. To his disciples, who marveled at this, he said, Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts?
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When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.
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You keep insisting, I feel good because the world is right! Wrong! The world is right because I feel good. That's what all the mystics are saying.
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That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners, said the Master.
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When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
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As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.
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You sanctify whatever you are grateful for.
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The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song — not one. Not two.
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The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.
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If the heart is unobstructed, the result is love.
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We live in a flash of light evening comes and it is night forever. It's only a flash and we waste it. We waste it with our anxiety, our worries, our concerns, our burdens.
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