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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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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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Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers only plastic flowers never die.
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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.
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The way to really live is to die. The passport to living is to imagine yourself in your grave. Imagine you're lying in your coffin....Now look at your problems from that viewpoint. Changes everything, doesn't it?
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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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The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song — not one. Not two.
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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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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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As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.
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You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.
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May the peace of God disturb you always.
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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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When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.
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One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.
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Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.
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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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When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.
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So love the thought of death, love it.
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