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Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.

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
Life
Pleasant
Experiences
Painful
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Growth
Pleasure
Pain
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Delightful

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One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.
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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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It's only when you become love - in other words, when you have dropped your illusions and attachments - that you will know. As you identify less and less with the me, you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything.
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The poor think they will be happy when they become rich. The rich think they will be happy when they are rid of their ulcers.
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Think of a flabby person covered with layers of fat. That is what your mind can become - flabby, covered with layers of fat till it becomes too dull and lazy to think, to observe, to explore, to discover ... not wanting to be disturbed or questioned into wakefulness.
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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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There comes a point in your life when you become stark raving insane, commit suicide or become a mystic.
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Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.
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God in heaven holds each person by a string. When you sin, you cut the string. Then God ties it up again. Making a knot, bringing you a little closer to Him. Again and again your sins cut the string and with each knot God keeps drawing you closer and closer.
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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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A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.
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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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To fight evil with activity is like fighting darkness with one's hands. So what you need is light, not fit.
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The day you are happy for no reason whatsoever, the day you find yourself taking delight in everything and in nothing, you will know that you have found the land of unending joy called the kingdom.
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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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This truth I firmly hold, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding my life has been a gift, a blessing to the world.
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Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.
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the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause happiness – it merely causes a flash of pleasure followed by weariness, and it is always accompanied, of course, by the anxiety that you may lose the object of your attachment.
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Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.
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