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When the eye is unobstructed, the result is sight. When the ear is unobstructed, the result is hearing. When the mind is unobstructed the result is truth. When the heart is unobstructed, the result is joy and love.

When the eye is unobstructed, the result is sight. When the ear is unobstructed, the result is hearing. When the mind is unobstructed the result is truth. When the heart is unobstructed, the result is joy and love.

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Spiritual, Heart, Eye
Anthony De Mello (2012). “Rediscovering Life: Awaken to Reality”, p.34, Image

Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.

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Goodbye, Heart, Yesterday
Anthony De Mello (2013). “Wellsprings: A Book of Spiritual Exercises”, p.227, Image

People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.

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Spiritual, Heart, Thinking
Anthony De Mello (2011). “The Way to Love: Meditations for Life”, p.138, Image

If the heart is unobstructed, the result is love.

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Heart, Results, Ifs
Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.160, Image

A Jesuit once wrote a note to Father Arrupe, his superior general, asking him about the relative value of communism, socialism and capitalism. Father Arrupe gave him a lovely reply. He said, "A system is about as good or as bad as the people who use it." People with golden hearts would make capitalism or communism or socialism work beautifully.

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Father, Heart, Relative Value
Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.151, Image

If you search within your heart, you will find something there that will make it possible for you to understand: a spark of disenchantment and discontent, which if fanned into flame will become a raging forest fire that will burn up the whole of the illusory world you are living in, thereby unveiling to your wondering eyes the kingdom that you have always lived in unsuspectingly.

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Heart, Eye, Fire
Anthony De Mello (2011). “The Way to Love: Meditations for Life”, p.121, Image

What is a loving heart? A loving heart is sensitive to the whole of life, to all persons; a loving heart doesn't harden itself to any persons or things.

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Spiritual, Heart, Sensitive
Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.140, Image

It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!

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Spiritual, Heart, Delight
Anthony De Mello (2012). “Heart of the Enlightened: A Book of Story Meditations”, p.7, Image

The words of the scholar are to be understood. The words of the master are not to be understood. They are to be listened to as one listens to the wind in the trees and the sound of the river and the song of the bird. They will awaken something within the heart that is beyond all knowledge.

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Song, Heart, Wind
Anthony De Mello (2016). “The Song of the Bird”, p.4, Image

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