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Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.
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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Bombay
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It's only when you become love - in other words, when you have dropped your illusions and attachments - that you will know. As you identify less and less with the me, you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything.
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I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.
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To a woman who complained about her destiny the Master said, It is you who make your destiny. But surely I am not responsible for being born a woman? Being born a woman isn't destiny. That is fate. Destiny is how you accept your womanhood and what you make of it.
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The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one.
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You are so proud of your intelligence, said the master. You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell.
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If I haven't received any grace today, then I was not at home. This is because God is sending deliveries constantly.
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the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.
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As the Arabs say, The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens.
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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.
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Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.
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If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.
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Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!
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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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A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.
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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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All conflict comes from attachment.
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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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We do not have a fear of the unknown. What we fear is giving up the known.
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Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself.
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I leave you free to be yourself: to think your thoughts, indulge your tastes, follow your inclinations, behave in ways that you decide are to your liking.
Anthony de Mello
