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You can read books without ever stepping into a library and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple.
Anthony de Mello
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Anthony de Mello
Age: 55 †
Born: 1931
Born: September 4
Died: 1987
Died: June 2
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If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.” “I know. An overwhelming passion for it.” “No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
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A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.
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You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.
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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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Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.
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The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990
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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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As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.
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If the heart is unobstructed, the result is love.
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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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No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
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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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When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
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Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.
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Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!
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Don't ask the world to change....you change first.
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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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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 three most difficult things for a human being are not physical feats or intellectual achievements. They are, first, returning love for hate second, including the excluded third, admitting that you are wrong.
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You are so proud of your intelligence, said the master. You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell.
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