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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
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Anthony de Mello
Age: 55 †
Born: 1931
Born: September 4
Died: 1987
Died: June 2
Philosopher
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More quotes by Anthony de Mello
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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Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when you are alone?
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Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
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Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.
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You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.
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What is the secret of your serenity? Said the master: Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.
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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.
Anthony de Mello
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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Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.
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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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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.
Anthony de Mello
Don't ask the world to change....you change first.
Anthony de Mello
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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You're so ashamed of your past drop it! You're so proud of your past drop it!
Anthony de Mello
Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.
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As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.
Anthony de Mello
When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
Anthony de Mello
Think of a flabby person covered with layers of fat. That is what your mind can become - flabby, covered with layers of fat till it becomes too dull and lazy to think, to observe, to explore, to discover ... not wanting to be disturbed or questioned into wakefulness.
Anthony de Mello
I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.
Anthony de Mello
Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?
Anthony de Mello
