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A thought is a screen, not a mirror that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.
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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If the heart is unobstructed, the result is love.
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You're so ashamed of your past drop it! You're so proud of your past drop it!
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I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.
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A disciple, in his reverence for the Master, looked upon him as God incarnate. Tell me, O Master, he said, why you have come into this world. To teach fools like you to stop wasting their time worshiping Masters.
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When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your brakes on.
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My former master taught me to accept birth and death. Then what have you come to me for? asked the master. To learn to accept what lies in between.
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Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.
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The poor think they will be happy when they become rich. The rich think they will be happy when they are rid of their ulcers.
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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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When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.
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Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance all evil comes from that.
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May the peace of God disturb you always.
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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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You have within yourself the answer to every question you propose - if you only knew how to look for it. In the Land of the spirit, you cannot walk by the light of someone else's lamp. You want to borrow mine. I'd rather teach you how to make your own.
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What is a loving heart? A loving heart is sensitive to the whole of life, to all persons a loving heart doesn't harden itself to any persons or things.
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What is the secret of your serenity? Said the master: Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.
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Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.
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Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when you are alone?
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