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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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Psychologist
Theologian
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Bombay
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No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
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There is yet another illusion, that it is important to be respectable, to be loved and appreciated, to be important. Many say we have a natural urge to be loved and appreciated, to belong. That’s false. Drop this illusion and you will find happiness. We have a natural urge to be free, a natural urge to love, but not to be loved.
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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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Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance all evil comes from that.
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You keep insisting, I feel good because the world is right! Wrong! The world is right because I feel good. That's what all the mystics are saying.
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Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?
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The feigning sleeper can delude others he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.
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People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.
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The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990
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One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.
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Name one practical, down-to-earth effect of spirituality, said the skeptic who was ready for an argument. Here's one, said the Master. When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
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When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
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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 Master made it his task to destroy systematically every doctrine, every belief, every concept of the divine, for these things, which were originally intended as pointers, were now being taken as descriptions. He loved to quote the Eastern saying When the sage points to the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.
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I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.
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Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
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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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The only way to change is by changing your understanding.
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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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