359 Quotes by Anthony de Mello

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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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    There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with the desire to become somebody. Contemplate the crowds of people who are striving might and main to become, not what Nature intended them to be- musicians, cooks, mechanics, carpenters, gardeners, inventors- but "somebody": to become successful, famous, powerful; to become something that will bring not quiet and self-fulfillment, but self-glorification and self-expansion

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    The law is an expression of God 's holy will and as such must be honored and loved," said the preacher piously. "Rubbish," said the Master. "The law is a necessary evil and as such must be cut down to the barest minimum. Show me a lover of the law and I will show you a muttonheaded tyrant .

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    My experience is that it's precisely the ones who don't know what to do with this life who are all hot and bothered about what they are going to do with another life.

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    The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song — not one. Not two.

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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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