Anthony de Mello
"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."
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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."
"من يبتغون الشفاء، شريطة أن ينالوه بلا ألم، كمن يؤيدون التقدم، شريطة أن يحصلوا عليه بلا تغيير."
Anthony de Mello
Awareness
"Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practice this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise."
"كلما كنت مع أحد أو فكرت في أحد، قل لنفسك: أنا أموت وهذا الشخص أيضاً يموت، محاولاً في الوقت ذاته أن تختبر حقيقة الكلمات التي تقولها. لو وافق كل واحد منكم على ممارسة هذا، لماتت المرارة وقامت الوئام."
Anthony de Mello
"“The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus, 'If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.'Said Diogenes, 'Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.”"
"كان الفيلسوف ديوجينس يتعشى خبزًا وعدسًا.
صادفه الفيلسوف أرسطيبوس، الذي كان ينعم بالعيش الرغيد بفضل مداهنته للملك.
فقال أرسطيبوس: "لو أنك أتقنتَ فن الخضوع للملك، لما احتجتَ أن تقتات على العدس."
فأجابه ديوجينس: "أتقن أنت العيش على العدس، ولن تضطر إلى الخضوع للملك."
Anthony de Mello
"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!"
"إنه لغز عظيم أن قلب الإنسان، مع توقه للحق الذي فيه وحده يجد التحرر والبهجة، تكون أول ردة فعل البشر تجاه الحق هي العداء والخوف!"
Anthony de Mello
"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."
Anthony de Mello
"As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. … That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life… Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind."
Anthony de Mello
"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."
Anthony de Mello
"People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it."
Anthony de Mello
"The Master made it his task to destroy systematically everydoctrine, every belief, every concept of the divine, for thesethings, which were originally intended as pointers, were nowbeing taken as descriptions. He loved to quote the Eastern saying "When the sage pointsto the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger."
Anthony de Mello
"As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. … That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life… Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind."
Anthony de Mello
"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."
Anthony de Mello
"Everybody was talking about the religious man who committed suicide. While no one in the monastery approved of the man's action, some say they admired his faith. Faith" said the Master. He had the courage of his convictions, didn't he"That was fanaticism, not faith. Faith demands a greater courage still: to reexamine one's convictions and reject them if they do not fit the facts."
Anthony de Mello
"If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.” “I know. An overwhelming passion for it.” “No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong."
Anthony de Mello
"Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practice this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise."
Anthony de Mello
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