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If I haven't received any grace today, then I was not at home. This is because God is sending deliveries constantly.

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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
Sending
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Constantly
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Grace
Home
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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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Nobody is afraid of the unknown, what you really fear is the loss of the known.
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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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If you never condemned you would never need to forgive.
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The seeker says, I do not know. That takes honesty. The master says, I do not know. That takes a mystic's mind that knows things through non-knowing. The disciple says, I know. That takes ignorance, in the form of borrowed knowledge.
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Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.
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Said the master: Where does your question come from?
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When the eye is unobstructed, the result is sight. When the ear is unobstructed, the result is hearing. When the mind is unobstructed the result is truth. When the heart is unobstructed, the result is joy and love.
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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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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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My former master taught me to accept birth and death. Then what have you come to me for? asked the master. To learn to accept what lies in between.
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Think of a flabby person covered with layers of fat. That is what your mind can become - flabby, covered with layers of fat till it becomes too dull and lazy to think, to observe, to explore, to discover ... not wanting to be disturbed or questioned into wakefulness.
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A writer arrived at the monastery to write a book about the Master. People say you are a genius . Are you? he asked. You might say so. said the Master, none too modestly. And what makes one a genius? The ability to recognize. Recognize what? The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg the saint in a selfish human bein
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Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.
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Spirituality practiced in the state of activity is incomparably superior to that practiced in a state of withdrawel.
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If what you said was true, where was the need to shout?
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To relate is to react. To react is to understand oneself. To understand oneself is to be enlightened. Relationships are schools for enlightenment.
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The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition.
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What can I do to see Reality as it is? The master smiled and said, I have good news and bad news for you, my friend. What's the bad news? There's nothing you can do to see it is a gift. And what's the good news? There's nothing you can do to see it is a gift.
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