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the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.
Anthony de Mello
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Anthony de Mello
Age: 55 †
Born: 1931
Born: September 4
Died: 1987
Died: June 2
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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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You do not have to change for God to love you.
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I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.
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Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.
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You can read books without ever stepping into a library and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple.
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When God means you to be a healer he sends you patients when he makes you a teacher he sends you pupils when he destines you to be a Master he sends you stories.
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The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one.
Anthony de Mello
When the eye is unobstructed, the result is sight. When the ear is unobstructed, the result is hearing. When the mind is unobstructed the result is truth. When the heart is unobstructed, the result is joy and love.
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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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Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance all evil comes from that.
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You are so proud of your intelligence, said the master. You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell.
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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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Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
Anthony de Mello
Both what you run from- and what you yearn for - are within you.
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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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One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.
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Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.
Anthony de Mello
Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.
Anthony de Mello
The present moment is never intolerable. What's intolerable is what's going to happen in the next four hours. To have your body here at 8 pm and your mind at 10:30 pm, that's what causes us suffering.
Anthony de Mello
A thought is a screen, not a mirror that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.
Anthony de Mello
