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“You must cultivate activities that you love. You must discover work that you do, not for its utility, but for itself, whether it succeeds or not, whether you are praised for it or not, whether you are loved and rewarded for it or not, whether people know about it and are grateful to you for it or not. How many activities can you count in your life that you engage in simply because they delight you and grip your soul? Find them out, cultivate them, for they are your passport to freedom and to love.”
― The Way to Love: The Last Meditations of Anthony de Mello
― The Way to Love: The Last Meditations of Anthony de Mello
“As the Arabs say, "The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens.”
― Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality
― Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality
“You’re never so centered on yourself as when you’re depressed.”
― Awareness
― Awareness
“There was an exhausted woodcutter who kept wasting time and energy chopping wood with a blunt ax because he did not have the time, he said, to stop and sharpen the blade.”
― Taking Flight: A Book of Story Meditations
― Taking Flight: A Book of Story Meditations
“God went mad out of love for us. Then we must be very lovely. What we have stressed in the past is how lovely God must be that he can love us like this. But nobody has yet said how lovely we must be, that God could fall for us like this. Both are true.”
― Seek God Everywhere: Reflections on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius
― Seek God Everywhere: Reflections on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius
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