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Anthony De Mello Inspirational Quotes (117)

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the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.
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There comes a point in your life when you become stark raving insane, commit suicide or become a mystic.
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You sanctify whatever you are grateful for.
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Step by step, let whatever happens happen. Real change will come when it is brought about, not by your ego, but by reality. Awareness releases reality to change you.
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If you want to know what it means to be happy, look at a flower, a bird, a child they are perfect images of the kingdom. For they live from moment to moment in the eternal now with no past and no future.
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If the heart is unobstructed, the result is love.
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Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.
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As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don't seek the truth just drop your opinions”. Drop your theories don't seek the truth.
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There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. 'Obedience keeps the rules,' he would say. 'Love knows when to break them.'
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It's only when you become love - in other words, when you have dropped your illusions and attachments - that you will know. As you identify less and less with the me, you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything.
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When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.
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What is love? The total absence of fear, said the Master What is it we fear? Love, said the Master.
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Said the master: Where does your question come from?
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Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.
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Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.
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Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
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A disciple, in his reverence for the Master, looked upon him as God incarnate. Tell me, O Master, he said, why you have come into this world. To teach fools like you to stop wasting their time worshiping Masters.
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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.
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When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
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Nothing has changed but my attitude, therefore, everything has changed.
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A newly married couple said, What shall we do to make our love endure? Said the Master, Love other things together.
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A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.
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The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one.
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Don't ask the world to change....you change first.
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