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Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.
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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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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If you look carefully you will see that there is one thing and only one thing that causes unhappiness. The name of that thing is attachment. What is an attachment? An emotional state of clinging caused by the belief that without some particular thing or some person you cannot be happy.
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The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept God.
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Take away human beings from this planet and life would go on, nature would go on in all its loveliness and violence. Where would the problem be? No problem. You created the problem. You are the problem. You identified with me and that is the problem. The feeling is in you, not in reality.
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Take the leap! You cannot cross a chasm in little jumps.
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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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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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One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.
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The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.
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There comes a point in your life when you become stark raving insane, commit suicide or become a mystic.
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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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What can I do to see Reality as it is? The master smiled and said, I have good news and bad news for you, my friend. What's the bad news? There's nothing you can do to see it is a gift. And what's the good news? There's nothing you can do to see it is a gift.
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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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A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.
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A disciple said to him, I am ready, in the quest for God , to give up anything: wealth, friends, family, country, life itself. What else can a person give up? The Master calmly replied, One's beliefs about God.
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You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.
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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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The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas. If you're ready to listen and if you're ready to be challenged, there's one thing that you can do, but no one can help you. What is this most important thing of all? It's called self-observation.
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Ordinarily, everything we do is in our self-interest. Everything.
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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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