
Ever since we are children, we are asked: do you love daddy? Do you love auntie? Do you love your teacher?
Nobody asks: do you love yourself?
And we end up spending a good deal of our life and energy trying to please others. But what about ourselves? Anthony Mello has a fine story on this subject.
Mother and son are in a restaurant. After taking the mother’s order, the waitress turns to the boy:
“And what will you be wanting?”
“A hotdog.”
“Nothing of the sort,” says the mother. “He wants a steak and a salad.”
Ignoring the comment, the waitress asks the boy:
“Do you want that with mustard or ketchup?”
“Both,” answers the boy.
And then he turns to the mother in surprise:
“Mother! SHE THINKS THAT I EXIST!”


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Beauty exists not in sameness but in difference. 



Nature is a manifestation of the Love of God.



Our great goal in life is to love. The rest is silence.
In order to hear Love’s words, you must allow Love to approach.

People always say: ‘It’s inner beauty that matters, not outer beauty.’
Ask a flower in the field: ‘Do you feel useful? After all, you do nothing but produce the same flowers over and over?’
For those who are not frightened by the solitude that reveals all mysteries, everything will have a different taste.
Loyalty can be compared to a shop selling exquisite porcelain vases, a shop to which Love has given us the key.


For those who cannot learn how to deal with anxiety, life will be a nightmare.
Our dream, the desire that is in our soul, did not come out of nowhere.
There is nothing wrong with anxiety.





























Nadia spent the whole autumn sowing and preparing his garden. In the spring, the flowers opened, and Nadia noticed a few dandelions that he had not planted.




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During his whole life, the Greek author Nikos Kazantzakis (Zorba, The Last Temptation of Christ) was an absolutely coherent man. Although he touched on religious themes in many of his books – such as an excellent biography of Saint Francis of Assisi – he always considered himself a confirmed atheist. Well, this confirmed atheist wrote one of the most beautiful definitions of God that I have ever come across:




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Khalil Gibran says that for 20 centuries men have adored the weakness of Jesus, and do not fully understand his power. Jesus did not live as a coward, and he died without complaining and suffering. He lived as a revolutionary, and was crucified as a rebel.



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“According to him [Plato], at the beginning of creation, men and women were not as they are now; there was just one being, who was rather short, with a body and a neck, but his head had two faces, looking in different directions. It was as if two creatures had been glued back to back, with two sets of sex organs, four legs and four arms.













































































































































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A widow from a poor village in Bengal did not have enough money to pay for her son’s bus fare, and so when the boy started going to school, he would have to walk through the forest all on his own.

















