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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
A disciple was one day recalling how Buddha , Jesus , Mohammed were branded as rebels and heretics by their contemporaries. Said the Master, Nobody can be said to have attained the pinnacle of Truth until a thousand sincere people have denounced him for blasphemy .
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What is the secret of your serenity? Said the master: Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.
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Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!
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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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As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.
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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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When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.
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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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This is what is ultimate in our human knowledge of God, to know that we do not know.
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You will seek for God in vain till you understand that God can't be seen as a thing he needs a special way of looking - similar to that of little children whose sight is undistorted by prefabricated doctrines and beliefs.
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You sanctify whatever you are grateful for.
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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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Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practice this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.
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A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.
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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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When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.
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Both what you run from- and what you yearn for - are within you.
Anthony de Mello
Step by step, let whatever happens happen. Real change will come when it is brought about, not by your ego, but by reality. Awareness releases reality to change you.
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