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No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
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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Bombay
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Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.
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the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause happiness – it merely causes a flash of pleasure followed by weariness, and it is always accompanied, of course, by the anxiety that you may lose the object of your attachment.
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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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There comes a point in your life when you become stark raving insane, commit suicide or become a mystic.
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Nothing has changed but my attitude, therefore, everything has changed.
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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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You can never be free as long as you have an ego to defend.
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To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.
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Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
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When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.
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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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the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.
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When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.
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You can read books without ever stepping into a library and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple.
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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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The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg the saint in a selfish human being.
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You do not have to change for God to love you.
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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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Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.
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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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