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As the Arabs say, The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens.
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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As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.
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