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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.
Anthony de Mello
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Anthony de Mello
Age: 55 †
Born: 1931
Born: September 4
Died: 1987
Died: June 2
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More quotes by Anthony de Mello
The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition.
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There's nothing you can do to see — it is a gift.
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You have within yourself the answer to every question you propose - if you only knew how to look for it. In the Land of the spirit, you cannot walk by the light of someone else's lamp. You want to borrow mine. I'd rather teach you how to make your own.
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Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
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Isn't there such a thing as social liberation? Of course there is, said the Master. How would you describe it? Liberation from the need to belong to the herd.
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You're so ashamed of your past drop it! You're so proud of your past drop it!
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A newly married couple said, What shall we do to make our love endure? Said the Master, Love other things together.
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Don't ask the world to change....you change first.
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So love the thought of death, love it.
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You can never be free as long as you have an ego to defend.
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Love springs from awareness.
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You sanctify whatever you are grateful for.
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These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
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A disciple, in his reverence for the Master, looked upon him as God incarnate. Tell me, O Master, he said, why you have come into this world. To teach fools like you to stop wasting their time worshiping Masters.
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A Jesuit once wrote a note to Father Arrupe, his superior general, asking him about the relative value of communism, socialism and capitalism. Father Arrupe gave him a lovely reply. He said, A system is about as good or as bad as the people who use it. People with golden hearts would make capitalism or communism or socialism work beautifully.
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Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.
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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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Because everyone is the same distance from the sun. Does it really lessen the distance if you live on top of a skyscraper?
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Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
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You will seek for God in vain till you understand that God can't be seen as a thing he needs a special way of looking - similar to that of little children whose sight is undistorted by prefabricated doctrines and beliefs.
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