Mintalah hati yang damai, walau dalam keadaan apa pun juga.
Anthony de MelloThe 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 [author:Diogenes|3213618, 'Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king".
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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.
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When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your brakes on.
Anthony de MelloThe world is right because I feel good.
p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990
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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.
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This truth I firmly hold, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding;
my life has been a gift, a blessing to the world.
the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause happiness – it merely causes a flash of pleasure followed by weariness, and it is always accompanied, of course, by the anxiety that you may lose the object of your attachment.
Anthony de MelloYou see persons and things not as they are but as you are.
Anthony de MelloIf 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.
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