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Anthony de Mello
Age: 55 †
Born: 1931
Born: September 4
Died: 1987
Died: June 2
Philosopher
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Psychologist
Theologian
Writer
Bombay
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Mysticism
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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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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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A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.
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Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.
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Concepts are always frozen. Reality flows.
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If you want to know what it means to be happy, look at a flower, a bird, a child they are perfect images of the kingdom. For they live from moment to moment in the eternal now with no past and no future.
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My commitment is not to consistency but to the Truth.
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What is the work of a Master? said a solemn-faced visitor. To teach people to laugh , said the Master gravely.
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How sad if we pass through life and never see it with the eyes of a child.
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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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We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything.
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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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Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers only plastic flowers never die.
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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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When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.
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As you identify less and less with the “me”, you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything. Do you know why? Because you are no longer afraid of being hurt or not liked. You no longer desire to impress anyone. Can you imagine the relief when you don't have to impress anybody anymore? Oh, what a relief. Happiness at last!
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There's nothing you can do to see — it is a gift.
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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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Ordinarily, everything we do is in our self-interest. Everything.
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A lost coin is found by means of a candle the deepest truth is found by means of a simple story.
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