Most people don't live aware ...

Most people don\'t live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else\'s - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.
Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.
 Anthony de Mello

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

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A writer arrived at the monastery to write a book about the Master. "People say you are a genius . Are you?" he asked. "You might say so." said the Master, none too modestly. "And what makes one a genius?" "The ability to recognize." "Recognize what?" "The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.
 Anthony de Mello
Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.
 Anthony de Mello
What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.
 Anthony de Mello
Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self.
 Anthony de Mello
Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
 Anthony de Mello