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When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
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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Bombay
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Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.
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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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Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.
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May the peace of God disturb you always.
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When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.
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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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Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.
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Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
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A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.
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When God means you to be a healer he sends you patients when he makes you a teacher he sends you pupils when he destines you to be a Master he sends you stories.
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