Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
– Anthony de Mello
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- Without trust there’s no cooperation. And without cooperation there’s no progress. History stops. – Rick Yancey
- In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute. – Francis A Schaeffer
- What is the secret of your serenity?- a student asked Sophia -œWholehearted cooperation with the inevitable,- she replied. – David W Jones
- 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. – Anthony de Mello
- A thought is a screen, not a mirror; that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality. – Anthony de Mello
- We see people and things not as they are, but as we are. – Anthony de Mello
- True tolerance only arises from a keen awareness of the abysmal ignorance of everyone as far as truth is concerned. – Anthony de Mello
- When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself. – Anthony de Mello
- The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable. – Jamaica Kincaid
- The path of Tao is not that of sudden enlightenment. It is not like Zen. Zen is sudden enlightenment, Tao is gradual growth. – Osho
- Sufis deny the absolute reality of time, space and physical form. These things are both relative and local. They only appear to be absolute. – Idries Shah
- Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible. – Frank Herbert
- Soul (Atma), Absolute Knowledge (Gnan) and the Absolute Supreme Soul (Parmatma) are one and the same element. – Dada Bhagwan
- Man (human life form) is a ‘second-hand’ quality of the absolute supreme Self (Parmatma, Lord). Man is close to the Lord [absolute supreme Self]. – Dada Bhagwan
- Since nothing is absolute There is no absolute silence, Only an appearance Of temporary peace. – Dejan Stojanovic
- Absolute is infinite so there is no absolute truth. There is truth that you can see in infinite ways and make your own. – Debasish Mridha
- If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? – Harry Shearer
- Absolute is a game with only one player where Absolute forgets itself so it would have a reason to fulfill the motion while returning. – Dejan Stojanovic
- Death an absolute mystery. No one knows the day and the time, no one knows where and how. Death is an absolute mystery. – Euginia Herlihy
- Are we looking for the absolute truth or the absolute feeling? Or the answer that best suits our personal needs? – Noah Cicero
- Good stories take your imagination to anywhere – Raphaela Mello
- That was our friendship: equal parts irritation and cooperation. – Ransom Riggs
- The Democratic Party of the USA would greatly appreciate your cooperation with re-installing Mr & Mrs Pinocchio into the White House. – Steven Magee
- To stop war, teach peace, love, cooperation, and most of all-”forgiveness. – Debasish Mridha
- Adversity relieves people of vanity and egotism. It discourages selfishness by proving that no one can succeed without the cooperation of others. – Napoleon Hill
- The most effective form of creation is an act of cooperation, not force. – Bryant McGill
- Your body will heal itself, through gentle and peaceful cooperation with the inherent wisdom and intelligence within. – Bryant McGill
- There are graceful ways of accessing your purpose and success, with time, invitation, gentleness, cooperation and surrender. – Bryant McGill
- Cooperation is a higher moral principle than competition. – Bryant McGill
- Nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish cooperation of many individuals. – Albert Einstein
- … for miracles to happen, God, need our cooperation. As Pastor Charles once told me, God can throw us a rope to save us, but we have to hold to it. – Stevan V Nikolic
- The master tools of success are invitation, patience, time, gentleness, cooperation and surrender. – Bryant McGill
- Technical people don’t make good slaves. Without their wholehearted cooperation, things fall apart. – Vernor Vinge
- An individual can’t create anything itself. All of our dreams come true with the cooperation and co-creation of other souls. – Hina Hashmi
- Materialize what you want with cooperation of other people not by depriving them. – Hina Hashmi
- If we are to be truly free, that freedom will come through cooperation and tolerance with one another. – AJ Darkholme
- We must reprogram ourselves to understand that cooperation is a higher principle than competition. – Bryant McGill
- I like the change then.- He held her hand again. -œChange is inevitable and sometimes it is good.- He smiled. – Sara Naveed
- Perhaps there can be no thanks nor any blame, but only recognition of the forces that brought us and bound us to our inevitable fates. – Robin Hobb
- It is inevitable that there will come a time when mankind will go out more at night and stay indoors during the day to avoid harmful solar rays. – Nabil N Jamal