Anthony de Mello Short Quotes

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The best things in life cannot be willed into being.

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My commitment is not to consistency but to the Truth.

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Is there life before death? — that is the question!

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If you never condemned you would never need to forgive.

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You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.

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A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.

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Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.

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When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.

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The human mind makes foolish divisions in what love sees as one.

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There is no salvation till they have seen their basic prejudice.

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One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.

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Ordinarily, everything we do is in our self-interest. Everything.

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All suffering comes from a person's inability to sit still and be alone.

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Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when
you are alone?

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Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

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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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To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.

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The Master is not concerned with what we believe — only with what we see.

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Extend
your arms
in welcome
to the future.
The best
is yet to come!

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Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.

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Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.

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Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.

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The Master never ceased to attack the notions about God that people entertain.

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Nobody is afraid of the unknown, what you really fear is the loss of the known.

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When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.

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No one is exempt from talking nonsense. The great misfortune is to do it solemnly.

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One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.

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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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Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.

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People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg

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