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"43 Anthony de Mello Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 4 September 1931. Died: 2 June 1987 | Priest | Psychotherapist | Teacher | Writer | Public speaker |

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

Word Image God Distortion
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The day you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.

Day Follow Someone Cease
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You cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.

You See Outside Fail
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Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.

Silence Not Absence Sound
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Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one’s awareness of one’s ignorance.

Wisdom Grow Proportion Awareness
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Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.
Wisdom Comes Learn Nothing
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Don’t ask the world to change — you change first.
Don't Ask World Change
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Eternal means timeless — no time.

Eternal Means Timeless
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The final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept ‘God’.

Final Barrier Attaining God
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Nobody can be said to have attained the pinnacle of Truth until a thousand sincere people have denounced him for blasphemy.

Nobody Attained Pinnacle Truth
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A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.

Good Teacher Practice Bad
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If you never condemned you would never need to forgive.

You Condemned Never Need
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Love is not something you have; love is something that has you

Love Something You Have
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Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.

Wisdom Learned Cannot Taught
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Problems only exist in the human mind.

Problems Exist Human Mind
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The best things in life cannot be willed into being.

Best Life Cannot Willed
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Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.

Thought Organize World So well
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Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers; only plastic flowers never die.

Whatever Truly Alive Die
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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.

When You See Wise
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No one can help the fish to find the ocean.

No one Help Find Ocean
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Obedience keeps the rules,” he would say. “Love knows when to break them.
Obedience Rules Say Love
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You see persons and things not as they are but as you are.

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

One Treads Joyful step Burden
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People kill for money or for power. But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill for their ideas.

People Kill Money Power
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Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind.

Life Sense Perceive Mystery
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Work becomes spiritual only when it is transformed into play.

Work Becomes Spiritual Transformed
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To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.

Seek Protect Ego True
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People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.

People Want Cure Pain
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These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness, and worship without awareness.

Destroy Human race Politics Principle
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When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.

When Guilty Sins Hate
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Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.

Enlightenment Absolute Cooperation Inevitable
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The one who would be constant in happiness must frequently change.

One Constant Happiness Frequently
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The greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.

Greatest Learning Ages Accepting
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A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.

Thought Screen Mirror Live
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Sinners often speak the truth. And saints have led people astray. Examine what is said, not the one who says it.

Sinners Speak Truth Saints
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A story is the shortest distance between a human being and truth.

Story Shortest Distance Human being
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Repentance brings an intense desire for God, deep gratitude, and a growth in self-awareness that increases our freedom to love.

Repentance Intense Desire God
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What we need is not just action that will bring about change but sight that will bring about love.

What Need Action Bring
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To fight evil with activity is like fighting darkness with one's hands. So what you need is light, not fit.

Fight Evil Darkness One's hands
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The important religious distinction is not between those who worship and those who do not worship but between those who love and those who don’t.

Important Religious Worship Love
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You do not have to change for God to love you.

You Change God Love
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Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!

Extend Welcome Future Best
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Life is easy, life is delightful. It’s only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.
Life Easy Delightful Hard
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