I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind. Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 – 1944)
Anthony de Mello Quote – “Happiness is not something you acquire…”
Happiness is not something you acquire. Love is not something you produce. Love is not something that you have. Love is something that has you. Anthony de Mello (1931 – 1987)
Anthony de Mello Quote – “Silence is not the absence of sound…”
Silence is not the absence of sound, but the absence of self. Anthony de Mello (1931 – 1987)
Anthony de Mello Quote – “We don’t have to quarrel about a word…”
We don’t have to quarrel about a word because “God” is only a word, a concept. One never quarrels about reality. We only quarrel about opinions, about concepts, about judgments. Drop your concepts, drop your opinions, drop your prejudices, drop your judgments, and you will see that. Anthony de Mello (1931 – 1987)
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quote – “So many things which once had distressed or revolted him…”
So many things which once had distressed or revolted him — the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their prohibitions, their refusal to allow the universe to move — are seemed to him now merely ridiculous, non-existent, compared with the Majestic Reality, the flood of energy, which now revealed itself to him: omnipresent, unalterable in its truth, […]
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quote – “When your presence flooded me with its light…”
When your presence flooded me with its light I hoped that within it I might find Ultimate Reality at its most tangible. But now that I have in fact laid hold on you, you who are utter consistency, and feel myself borne by you, I realize that my deepest hidden desire was not to possess you, but to be possessed. […]
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quote – “Like the monist I plunge into the all-inclusive One…”
Like the monist I plunge into the all-inclusive One. But the one is so perfect that as it receives me and I lose myself in it, I can find in it the ultimate perfection of my own individuality. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881 – 1955)
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quote – “Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity…”
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881 – 1955)
Honore de Balzac Quote – “Man judges all things by his abstractions…”
Man judges all things by his abstractions — good, evil, virtue, crime. His formulas of right are his scales, and his justice is blind. The justice of God sees — in that is everything. Honore de Balzac (1799 – 1850)
Quotation by Dante – “The love of God, unutterable and perfect…”
The love of God, unutterable and perfect, flows into a pure soul the way light rushes into a transparent object. Dante (circa 1265 – 1321)
