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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
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More quotes by Anthony de Mello
Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.
Anthony de Mello
God in heaven holds each person by a string. When you sin, you cut the string. Then God ties it up again. Making a knot, bringing you a little closer to Him. Again and again your sins cut the string and with each knot God keeps drawing you closer and closer.
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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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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.
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You're so ashamed of your past drop it! You're so proud of your past drop it!
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Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.
Anthony de Mello
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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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 fight evil with activity is like fighting darkness with one's hands. So what you need is light, not fit.
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Nothing has changed but my attitude, therefore, everything has changed.
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If you don't look at things through your concepts, you'll never be bored. Every single thing is unique.
Anthony de Mello
the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.
Anthony de Mello
One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.
Anthony de Mello
Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.
Anthony de Mello
What is the secret of your serenity? Said the master: Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.
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You have within yourself the answer to every question you propose - if you only knew how to look for it. In the Land of the spirit, you cannot walk by the light of someone else's lamp. You want to borrow mine. I'd rather teach you how to make your own.
Anthony de Mello
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.
Anthony de Mello
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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What is a loving heart? A loving heart is sensitive to the whole of life, to all persons a loving heart doesn't harden itself to any persons or things.
Anthony de Mello
If the heart is unobstructed, the result is love.
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