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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
Philosopher
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Bombay
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My experience is that it's precisely the ones who don't know what to do with this life who are all hot and bothered about what they are going to do with another life.
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Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.
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To a visitor who asked to become his disciple the Master said, You may live with me, but don't become my follower. Whom, then, shall I follow? No one. The day you follow someone you cease to follow Truth .
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Nothing has changed but my attitude, therefore, everything has changed.
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Because everyone is the same distance from the sun. Does it really lessen the distance if you live on top of a skyscraper?
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A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.
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Take the leap! You cannot cross a chasm in little jumps.
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All is well, all is well. Though everything is a mess, all is well.
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Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.
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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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You do not have to change for God to love you.
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If the heart is unobstructed, the result is love.
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Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
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Is there life before death? - that is the question!
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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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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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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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Nobody is afraid of the unknown, what you really fear is the loss of the known.
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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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Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.
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