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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.
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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When the eye is unobstructed, the result is sight. When the ear is unobstructed, the result is hearing. When the mind is unobstructed the result is truth. When the heart is unobstructed, the result is joy and love.
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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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Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.
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the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.
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Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.
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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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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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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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Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.
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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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Love springs from awareness.
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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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Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
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Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when you are alone?
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The poor think they will be happy when they become rich. The rich think they will be happy when they are rid of their ulcers.
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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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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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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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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
People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg
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