A Quote by Anthony de Mello

Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.

Anthony de Mello

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Absolute Cooperation Enlightenment Inevitable

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Anthony de Mello
Indian - Priest
September 4, 1931 - June 2, 1987

It is inevitable, that eventually the people will demand absolute security from the state... And absolute security is absolute slavery.

Taylor Caldwell

"What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."

Anthony de Mello

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive - that you can touch the miracle of being alive - then that is a kind of enlightenment.

Thich Nhat Hanh

This is cooperation [with Hezbollah, Iran , from Russia], I don't know what you mean by support. We have cooperation with countries for decades. Why talk about this cooperation now ?

Bashar al-Assad

There are perhaps opportunities for greater political cooperation, at least more cooperation than exists now. But there can be no cooperation in the field because every situation is different

Ahmed Yassin

In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately expressed in violence to the evildoer. I am endeavoring to show my countrymen that violent non-cooperation only multiplies evil and that evil can only be sustained by violence. Withdrawal of support of evil requires complete abstention from violence. Non-violence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-cooperation with evil.

Mahatma Gandhi

Even though it's not perceivable to the mind or senses, it's there and enlightenment is absolute freedom.

Frederick Lenz

Conflict is inevitable, the source of all growth, and an absolute necessity if one is to be alive.

Jean Baker Miller

When you talk about cooperation, it means cooperation between two legal governments, not cooperation between foreign government and any faction within Syria.

Bashar al-Assad

Cooperation - To get cooperation, you must give cooperation. Always seek to find the best way rather than insisting on your own way.

John Wooden

There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender. Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence, absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

Eric Hoffer

There comes a time when a race of beings makes a decision. When they chose to reject enlightenment, it's the end of their world because the karma is inevitable. They have to destroy themselves.

Frederick Lenz

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment.

Nhat Hanh

In your everyday life you always have opportunities for enlightenment. If you go to the rest room, there is a chance to attain enlightenment. When you cook, there is a chance to attain enlightenment. When you clean the floor, there is a chance to attain enlightenment.