"If you want to know what it means to be happy, look at a flower, a bird, a child; they are perfect images of the kingdom. For they live from moment to moment in the eternal now with no past and no future."

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Source : "The Way to Love : The Last Meditations of Anthony de Mello". Book by Anthony de Mello, 1995.

Anthony de Mello

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“Recognizing that something is wrong is the first step toward changing the world.”
“I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.”
“God quickened in the Sea and in the Rivers, So many fishes of so many features, That in the waters we may see all Creatures; Even all that on the earth is to be found,! As if the world were in deep waters drowned.”
“I don't approach my acting as just saying a few lines and then going off-screen. It's a craft. I really invest in trying to make it a craft.”

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“At some point in every racer's life he has to make his peace with cheating. I do not approve of cheating ... at all. Of course, like every successful racer, I differentiate between taking advantage of loopholes in the regulations, stretching the grey areas and outright cheating. In any given racing series I will not start the cheating. If someone else starts it, I will appeal to them and to the officials to stop it. If my efforts do not succeed, then I'll show them how it is done ....”
“Grief is a process to go through, not a destination in which to wallow. In a process, you keep putting one foot in front of the other, and each little step is part of your healing.”
“Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.”
“I became disconnected from the childlike play that art could be. I spent so much time fearing I wasn't good enough that I lost the sense that my artistic expression was worthy.”

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