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You see persons and things not as they are but as you are.
Anthony de Mello
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Anthony de Mello
Age: 55 †
Born: 1931
Born: September 4
Died: 1987
Died: June 2
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More quotes by Anthony de Mello
I seek the meaning of existence, said the stranger. You are of course assuming, said the Master, that existence has a meaning. Doesn't it? When you experience existence as it is - not as you think it is you will discover that your question has no meaning, said the Master.
Anthony de Mello
Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance all evil comes from that.
Anthony de Mello
In many ways we were drugged when we were young. We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, approval, appreciation, applause.
Anthony de Mello
One day, a philosopher asked, What is the purpose of creation? Lovemaking, said the Master. Later, to his disciples, he said, Before creation, love was. After creation, love was made. When love is consummated, creation will cease to be, and love will be forever.
Anthony de Mello
Charity is never so lovely as when one has lost consciousness that one is practicing charity. 'You mean I helped you? I was enjoying myself. I was just doing my dance. It helped you, that's wonderful. Congratulations to you. No credit to me.
Anthony de Mello
To relate is to react. To react is to understand oneself. To understand oneself is to be enlightened. Relationships are schools for enlightenment.
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The seeker says, I do not know. That takes honesty. The master says, I do not know. That takes a mystic's mind that knows things through non-knowing. The disciple says, I know. That takes ignorance, in the form of borrowed knowledge.
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Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when you are alone?
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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.
Anthony de Mello
The words of the scholar are to be understood. The words of the master are not to be understood. They are to be listened to as one listens to the wind in the trees and the sound of the river and the song of the bird. They will awaken something within the heart that is beyond all knowledge.
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Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts?
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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.
Anthony de Mello
Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?
Anthony de Mello
Behold God beholding you...and smiling.
Anthony de Mello
All conflict comes from attachment.
Anthony de Mello
As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.
Anthony de Mello
If you never condemned you would never need to forgive.
Anthony de Mello
Religion is the finger pointing to God. People are too busy licking the finger to notice where it's pointing.
Anthony de Mello
Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.
Anthony de Mello
What you are aware of you are in control of what you are not aware of is in control of you.
Anthony de Mello
