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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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The poor think they will be happy when they become rich. The rich think they will be happy when they are rid of their ulcers.
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It's only when you become love - in other words, when you have dropped your illusions and attachments - that you will know. As you identify less and less with the me, you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything.
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When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.
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The way to really live is to die. The passport to living is to imagine yourself in your grave. Imagine you're lying in your coffin....Now look at your problems from that viewpoint. Changes everything, doesn't it?
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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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What is the secret of your serenity? Said the master: Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.
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We live in a flash of light evening comes and it is night forever. It's only a flash and we waste it. We waste it with our anxiety, our worries, our concerns, our burdens.
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Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.
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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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You can never be free as long as you have an ego to defend.
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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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Because everyone is the same distance from the sun. Does it really lessen the distance if you live on top of a skyscraper?
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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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To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.
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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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As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don't seek the truth just drop your opinions”. Drop your theories don't seek the truth.
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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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You sanctify whatever you are grateful for.
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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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One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.
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