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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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Anthony de Mello
Age: 55 †
Born: 1931
Born: September 4
Died: 1987
Died: June 2
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Both what you run from- and what you yearn for - are within 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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You will seek for God in vain till you understand that God can't be seen as a thing he needs a special way of looking - similar to that of little children whose sight is undistorted by prefabricated doctrines and beliefs.
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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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The Master was exceedingly gracious to university dons who visited him, but he would never reply to their questions or be drawn into their theological speculations. To his disciples, who marveled at this, he said, 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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Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practice this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.
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I leave you free to be yourself: to think your thoughts, indulge your tastes, follow your inclinations, behave in ways that you decide are to your liking.
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Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?
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Nothing has changed but my attitude, therefore, everything has changed.
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No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
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Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.
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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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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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I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.
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