8 Quotes by Anthony de Mello about spiritual

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    It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!

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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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    People who want to rise above a well-cooked meal and a well-tailored garment, are out of their spiritual minds.

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    And increasingly - you know this and so do I we're losing the youth everywhere. They hate us; they are not interested in having more fears and guilt laid on them. They're not interested in more sermons and exhortations. But they are interested in learning about love. How can I be happy? How can I live? How can I taste the marvelous things that the mystics speak of?

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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 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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    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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