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All is well, all is well. Though everything is a mess, all is well.

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Anthony de Mello
Age: 55 †
Born: 1931
Born: September 4
Died: 1987
Died: June 2
Philosopher
Priest
Psychologist
Theologian
Writer
Bombay
Mess
Though
Wells
Everything
Well

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As you identify less and less with the “me”, you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything. Do you know why? Because you are no longer afraid of being hurt or not liked. You no longer desire to impress anyone. Can you imagine the relief when you don't have to impress anybody anymore? Oh, what a relief. Happiness at last!
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Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.
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When you cling, life is destroyed when you hold on to anything, you cease to live.
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The best things in life cannot be willed into being.
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I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.
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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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