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“Your life as it is now: nightmare. Every single thing you cling to and have convinced yourself you cannot be happy without: nightmare.”
― Anthony de Mello, The Way to Love: Meditations for Life

“We have the assurance of the enlightened beings that reality is goodness, that reality is freedom from suffering, that reality is bliss. So we should never fear to open ourselves to reality, to cast aside our preconceptions and biases, and to open more and more to whatever turns out to be real. You can have faith in enlightenment, faith in evolutionary potential, faith in infinity, faith in your infinite self. (p. 222)”
― Robert A.F. Thurman, The Jewel Tree of Tibet: The Enlightenment Engine of Tibetan Buddhism

“You falsely think that your fears protect you, your beliefs have made you what you are and your attachments make your life exciting and secure. You fail to see that they are actually a screen between you and life’s symphony.”
― Anthony de Mello, The Way to Love: Meditations for Life

“The Messenger said, "The human heart is the House of the All-Merciful." (p. 249)”
― Pir Zia Inayat Khan, Mingled Waters : Sufism and the Mystical Unity of Religions