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People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.
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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Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
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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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What is love? The total absence of fear, said the Master What is it we fear? Love, said the Master.
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These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
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You are never in love with anyone. You're only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person.
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the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause happiness – it merely causes a flash of pleasure followed by weariness, and it is always accompanied, of course, by the anxiety that you may lose the object of your attachment.
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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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This is what is ultimate in our human knowledge of God, to know that we do not know.
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One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.
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Both what you run from- and what you yearn for - are within you.
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Name one practical, down-to-earth effect of spirituality, said the skeptic who was ready for an argument. Here's one, said the Master. When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
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A newly married couple said, What shall we do to make our love endure? Said the Master, Love other things together.
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Said the master: Where does your question come from?
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Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.
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That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners, said the Master.
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The feigning sleeper can delude others he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.
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Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.
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You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.
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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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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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