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When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your brakes on.
Anthony de Mello
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Anthony de Mello
Age: 55 †
Born: 1931
Born: September 4
Died: 1987
Died: June 2
Philosopher
Priest
Psychologist
Theologian
Writer
Bombay
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Driving
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Failure
Brakes
Longer
Tensions
Fear
Brake
Succeeding
Relaxed
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Don't ask the world to change....you change first.
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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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One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.
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Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.
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My former master taught me to accept birth and death. Then what have you come to me for? asked the master. To learn to accept what lies in between.
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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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I'm going to write a book someday and the title will be I'm an Ass, You're an Ass. That's the most liberating, wonderful thing in the world, when you openly admit you're an ass. It's wonderful. When people tell me, You're wrong I say, What can you expect of an ass?
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You do not have to change for God to love you.
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There is yet another illusion, that it is important to be respectable, to be loved and appreciated, to be important. Many say we have a natural urge to be loved and appreciated, to belong. That’s false. Drop this illusion and you will find happiness. We have a natural urge to be free, a natural urge to love, but not to be loved.
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Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!
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What is the work of a Master? said a solemn-faced visitor. To teach people to laugh , said the Master gravely.
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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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So love the thought of death, love it.
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When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.
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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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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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That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners, said the Master.
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Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.
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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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