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Anthony De Mello Inspirational Quotes (117)

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The only way to change is by changing your understanding.
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You are so proud of your intelligence, said the master. You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell.
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The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition.
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The day you are happy for no reason whatsoever, the day you find yourself taking delight in everything and in nothing, you will know that you have found the land of unending joy called the kingdom.
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A disciple was one day recalling how Buddha , Jesus , Mohammed were branded as rebels and heretics by their contemporaries. Said the Master, Nobody can be said to have attained the pinnacle of Truth until a thousand sincere people have denounced him for blasphemy .
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I leave you free to be yourself: to think your thoughts, indulge your tastes, follow your inclinations, behave in ways that you decide are to your liking.
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Understand your darkness and it will vanish then you will know what light is. Understand your nightmare for what it is and it will stop then you will wake up to reality. Understand your false beliefs and they will drop then you will know the taste of happiness.
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You keep insisting, I feel good because the world is right! Wrong! The world is right because I feel good. That's what all the mystics are saying.
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No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
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The three most difficult things for a human being are not physical feats or intellectual achievements. They are, first, returning love for hate second, including the excluded third, admitting that you are wrong.
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To fight evil with activity is like fighting darkness with one's hands. So what you need is light, not fit.
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Love springs from awareness.
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You're not living until it doesn't matter a tinker's damn to you whether you live or die. At that point you live. When you're ready to lose your life, you live it.
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Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.
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Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?
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You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.
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The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990
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A thought is a screen, not a mirror that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.
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Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.
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We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything.
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What is my identity ? Nothing, said the Master. You mean that I am an emptiness and a void? said the incredulous disciple. Nothing that can be labeled. said the Master.
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Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.
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You're so ashamed of your past drop it! You're so proud of your past drop it!
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Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
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