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Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
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
Cooperation
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The Master was exceedingly gracious to university dons who visited him, but he would never reply to their questions or be drawn into their theological speculations. To his disciples, who marveled at this, he said, Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts?
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Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.
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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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When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
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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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When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.
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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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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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Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.
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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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