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“People don’t really want to grow up, people don’t really want to change, people don’t really want to be happy. As someone so wisely said to me, “Don’t try to make them happy, you’ll only get in trouble. Don’t try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it irritates the pig.”
― Anthony de Mello, Awareness

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“Of what use is it to be tolerant of others if you are convinced that you are right and everyone who disagrees with you is wrong? That isn’t tolerance but condescension.”
― Anthony de Mello, The Way to Love: The Last Meditations of Anthony de Mello

tags: condescension, tolerance

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“See how you attempt to bring about change—both in yourself and in others—through the use of punishment and reward, through discipline and control, through sermonizing and guilt, through greed and pride, ambition and vanity, rather than through loving acceptance and patience, painstaking understanding and vigilant awareness.”
― Anthony de Mello, The Way to Love: Meditations for Life

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“True tolerance only arises from a keen awareness of the abysmal ignorance of everyone as far as truth is concerned.”
― Anthony de Mello, The Way to Love: The Last Meditations of Anthony de Mello

tags: ignorance, tolerance, truth

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“Do you think you help people because you are in love with them? Well, I’ve got news for you. You are never in love with anyone. You’re only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person. Take a minute to think about that: You are never in love with anyone, you’re in love with your prejudiced idea of that person.”
― Anthony de Mello, Awareness

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