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Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!

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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
Future
Best
Come
Extend
Welcome
Arms

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What is a loving heart? A loving heart is sensitive to the whole of life, to all persons a loving heart doesn't harden itself to any persons or things.
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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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When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.
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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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Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
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You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.
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Step by step, let whatever happens happen. Real change will come when it is brought about, not by your ego, but by reality. Awareness releases reality to change you.
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Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts?
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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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You sanctify whatever you are grateful for.
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When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.
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If the heart is unobstructed, the result is love.
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Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.
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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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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 sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song — not one. Not two.
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Understand your darkness and it will vanish then you will know what light is. Understand your nightmare for what it is and it will stop then you will wake up to reality. Understand your false beliefs and they will drop then you will know the taste of happiness.
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Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.
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Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.
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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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