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Anthony De Mello Inspirational Quotes (117)

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Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.
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If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.” “I know. An overwhelming passion for it.” “No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
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People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg
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You are never in love with anyone. You're only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person.
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What is the secret of your serenity? Said the master: Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.
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The disciples were absorbed in a discussion of Lao-Tzu's dictum: Those who know, do not say Those who say, do not know. When the master entered, they asked him what the words meant. Said the master, Which of you knows the fragrance of a rose? All of them indicated that they knew. Then he said, Put it into words. All of them were silent
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The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg the saint in a selfish human being.
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the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause happiness – it merely causes a flash of pleasure followed by weariness, and it is always accompanied, of course, by the anxiety that you may lose the object of your attachment.
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There's nothing you can do to see — it is a gift.
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Because everyone is the same distance from the sun. Does it really lessen the distance if you live on top of a skyscraper?
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We live in a flash of light evening comes and it is night forever. It's only a flash and we waste it. We waste it with our anxiety, our worries, our concerns, our burdens.
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Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance all evil comes from that.
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Think of a flabby person covered with layers of fat. That is what your mind can become - flabby, covered with layers of fat till it becomes too dull and lazy to think, to observe, to explore, to discover ... not wanting to be disturbed or questioned into wakefulness.
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The present moment is never intolerable. What's intolerable is what's going to happen in the next four hours. To have your body here at 8 pm and your mind at 10:30 pm, that's what causes us suffering.
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You can read books without ever stepping into a library and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple.
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One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.
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You have within yourself the answer to every question you propose - if you only knew how to look for it. In the Land of the spirit, you cannot walk by the light of someone else's lamp. You want to borrow mine. I'd rather teach you how to make your own.
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If you don't look at things through your concepts, you'll never be bored. Every single thing is unique.
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To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.
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As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.
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Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practice this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.
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A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.
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Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when you are alone?
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That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners, said the Master.
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