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As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.
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 you don't look at things through your concepts, you'll never be bored. Every single thing is unique.
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God in heaven holds each person by a string. When you sin, you cut the string. Then God ties it up again. Making a knot, bringing you a little closer to Him. Again and again your sins cut the string and with each knot God keeps drawing you closer and closer.
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One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.
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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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You sanctify whatever you are grateful for.
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This truth I firmly hold, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding my life has been a gift, a blessing to the world.
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This is what is ultimate in our human knowledge of God, to know that we do not know.
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There's nothing you can do to see — it is a gift.
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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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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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The disciples were absorbed in a discussion of Lao-Tzu's dictum: Those who know, do not say Those who say, do not know. When the master entered, they asked him what the words meant. Said the master, Which of you knows the fragrance of a rose? All of them indicated that they knew. Then he said, Put it into words. All of them were silent
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You do not have to change for God to love you.
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