Don't Change...

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Don't change. Desire to change is the enemy of Love.

Don't change yourselves: love yourselves as you are.

Don't change others: love all others as they are.

Don't change the world: it is in God's hands, and He knows.

And if you do that...change will occur marvelously in its own way and in its own time.

Yield to the current of life...unencumbered by baggage.

- Tony De Mello


(from the book Unencumbered By Baggage by Father Carlos G. Valles S.J.)

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