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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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If you don't look at things through your concepts, you'll never be bored. Every single thing is unique.
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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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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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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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Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers only plastic flowers never die.
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What is the secret of your serenity? Said the master: Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.
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Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.
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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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Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when you are alone?
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Isn't there such a thing as social liberation? Of course there is, said the Master. How would you describe it? Liberation from the need to belong to the herd.
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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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There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. 'Obedience keeps the rules,' he would say. 'Love knows when to break them.'
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When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.
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You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.
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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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the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.
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You are never in love with anyone. You're only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person.
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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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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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