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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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Psychologist
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Bombay
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There is yet another illusion, that it is important to be respectable, to be loved and appreciated, to be important. Many say we have a natural urge to be loved and appreciated, to belong. That’s false. Drop this illusion and you will find happiness. We have a natural urge to be free, a natural urge to love, but not to be loved.
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Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.
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Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.
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the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.
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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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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 the secret of your serenity? Said the master: Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.
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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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What is love? The total absence of fear, said the Master What is it we fear? Love, said the Master.
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As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don't seek the truth just drop your opinions”. Drop your theories don't seek the truth.
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Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.
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Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.
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The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg the saint in a selfish human being.
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the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause happiness – it merely causes a flash of pleasure followed by weariness, and it is always accompanied, of course, by the anxiety that you may lose the object of your attachment.
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If you don't look at things through your concepts, you'll never be bored. Every single thing is unique.
Anthony de Mello
The feigning sleeper can delude others he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.
Anthony de Mello
There comes a point in your life when you become stark raving insane, commit suicide or become a mystic.
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What is my identity ? Nothing, said the Master. You mean that I am an emptiness and a void? said the incredulous disciple. Nothing that can be labeled. said the Master.
Anthony de Mello
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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To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.
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