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You do not have to change for God to love you.
Anthony de Mello
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Anthony de Mello
Age: 55 †
Born: 1931
Born: September 4
Died: 1987
Died: June 2
Philosopher
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This is what is ultimate in our human knowledge of God, to know that we do not know.
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The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990
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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 only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.
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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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Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?
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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 sanctify whatever you are grateful for.
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You can read books without ever stepping into a library and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple.
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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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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.
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You are never in love with anyone. You're only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person.
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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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Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.
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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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There comes a point in your life when you become stark raving insane, commit suicide or become a mystic.
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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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The words of the scholar are to be understood. The words of the master are not to be understood. They are to be listened to as one listens to the wind in the trees and the sound of the river and the song of the bird. They will awaken something within the heart that is beyond all knowledge.
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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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When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.
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