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To relate is to react. To react is to understand oneself. To understand oneself is to be enlightened. Relationships are schools for enlightenment.
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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Schools
Enlightenment
Relate
Relationships
Oneself
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Sin is a refusal to grow, a refusal to love, a refusal to get committed, to be concerned, and to take risks.
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You are only a disciple because your eyes are closed. The day you open them you will see there is nothing you can learn from me or anyone.
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If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.
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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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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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You're so ashamed of your past drop it! You're so proud of your past drop it!
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Don't ask the world to change....you change first.
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Live your life as you see fit. That's not selfish. Selfish is to demand that others live their lives as you see fit.
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You see persons and things not as they are but as you are.
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Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.
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There's only one reason why you're not experiencing bliss at this present moment, and it's because you're thinking or focusing on what you don't have....But, right now you have everything you need to be in bliss.
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