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You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.
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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Said the monk: All these mountains and rivers and the earth and stars - where do they come from? Said the master: Where does your question come from?
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Understand your darkness and it will vanish then you will know what light is. Understand your nightmare for what it is and it will stop then you will wake up to reality. Understand your false beliefs and they will drop then you will know the taste of happiness.
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Nothing has changed but my attitude, therefore, everything has changed.
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This truth I firmly hold, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding my life has been a gift, a blessing to the world.
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When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself.
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Concepts are always frozen. Reality flows.
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Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.
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A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.
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When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.
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I leave you free to be yourself: to think your thoughts, indulge your tastes, follow your inclinations, behave in ways that you decide are to your liking.
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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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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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No person on earth has the power to make you unhappy. There is no event on earth that has the power to disturb you or hurt you. No event, condition, situation, or person. Nobody told you this they told you the opposite. That's why you're in the mess you're in right now. That is why you're asleep. They never told you this. But it's self-evident.
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Don't ask the world to change....you change first.
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Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?
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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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Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
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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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Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.
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If you never condemned you would never need to forgive.
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