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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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What is a loving heart? A loving heart is sensitive to the whole of life, to all persons; a loving heart doesn't harden itself to any persons or things.
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How sad if we pass through life and never see it with the eyes of a child.
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Nobody is afraid of the unknown, what you really fear is the loss of the known.
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To a woman who complained about her destiny the Master said, "It is you who make your destiny." "But surely I am not responsible for being born a woman?" "Being born a woman isn't destiny. That is fate. Destiny is how you accept your womanhood and what you make of it."
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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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Understand your darkness and it will vanish; then you will know what light is. Understand your nightmare for what it is and it will stop; then you will wake up to reality. Understand your false beliefs and they will drop; then you will know the taste of happiness.
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Ordinarily, everything we do is in our self-interest. Everything.
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Anytime you have a negative feeling toward anyone, you're living in an illusion. There's something seriously wrong with you. You're not seeing reality. Something inside of you has to change. But what do we generally do when we have a negative feeling? "He is to blame, she is to blame. She's got to change." No! The world's all right. The one who has to change is you.
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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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You are never in love with anyone. You're only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person.
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Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when
you are alone?
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All suffering comes from a person's inability to sit still and be alone.
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Is it possible for the rose to say, "I will give my fragrance to the good people who smell me, but I will withhold it from the bad?" Or is it possible for the lamp to say, "I will give my light to the good people in this room, but I will withhold it from the evil people"? Or can a tree say, "I'll give my shade to the good people who rest under me, but I will withhold it from the bad"? These are images of what love is about.
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You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.
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To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.
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The Master never ceased to attack the notions about God that people entertain.
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One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.
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We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything.
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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 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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Sin is a refusal to grow, a refusal to love, a refusal to get committed, to be concerned, and to take risks.
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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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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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Happiness is our natural state. Happiness is the natural state of little children, to whom the kingdom belongs until they have been polluted and contaminated by the stupidity of society and
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
Anthony de Mello
Born:
September 4, 1931
Died:
June 2, 1987
(aged 55)
Bio:
Anthony "Tony" de Mello was an Indian Jesuit priest and psychotherapist. A spiritual teacher, writer and public speaker, De Mello wrote several books on spirituality and hosted numerous spiritual retreats and conferences.
Known for:
Awareness
The way to love
The song of the bird (1982)
One minute wisdom (1985)
Sadhana, a way to God (1978)
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