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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
Priest
Psychologist
Theologian
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Bombay
Schools
Enlightenment
Relate
Relationships
Oneself
Awareness
Understand
React
School
Enlightened
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I have no fear of losing u, for you aren't an object of my property, or anyone else's. I love you as you are, without attachment, without fears, without conditions, without egoism, trying not to absorb you. I love you freely because I love your freedom, as well as mine.
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Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself.
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The devil has a Ph.D. in perfect logic.
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The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990
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