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Don't ask the world to change....you change first.
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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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.
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People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.
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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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What is the secret of your serenity? Said the master: Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.
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Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.
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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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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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The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990
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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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Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.
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There's only one reason why you're not experiencing bliss at this present moment, and it's because you're thinking or focusing on what you don't have....But, right now you have everything you need to be in bliss.
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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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Love springs from awareness.
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You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.
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Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers only plastic flowers never die.
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No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
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May the peace of God disturb you always.
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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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To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.
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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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