Anthony de Mello in “Awareness”
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“How many people do you know who are unaffected by praise or blame? – If you find me charming, it means that right now you are in a good mood, nothing more. It also means that I fit your shopping list. – If you ever let yourself feel good when people tell you that you’re O.K., then you are preparing yourself to feel bad when they tell you you’re not good. As long as you live to fill other people’s expectations, you’d better watch… whether you live up to every damned expectation of theirs. You’re not O.K. and you’re not not O.K., you’re you.”
11 Nov“Do you want to change the world? How about beginning with yourself?”
2 Nov– Anthony de Mello in “Awareness”
“The trouble with people is that they are busy fixing things they don’t even understand. We’re always fixing things, aren’t we? It never strikes us that things don’t need to be fixed. They really don’t. This is a great illumination. They need to be understood. If you understood them, they’d change.”
1 Nov– Anthony de Mello in “Awareness”
“If you see through yourself, you will see through everyone. Then you will love them. Otherwise you spend the whole time grappling with your wrong notions of them, with your illusions that are constantly crashing against reality.”
1 Nov– Anthony de Mello in “Awareness”
“You are never in love with anyone. You’re only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person,”
27 OctAnthony de Mello in “Awareness”
“My business is to do my thing, to dance my dance. If you profit from it, fine; if you don’t, too bad!”
27 OctAnthony de Mello in “Awareness”
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“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”
30 JunTao Te Ching on Leadership, Power, Wisdom, Other
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