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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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Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.
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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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Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when you are alone?
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A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.
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A disciple said to him, I am ready, in the quest for God , to give up anything: wealth, friends, family, country, life itself. What else can a person give up? The Master calmly replied, One's beliefs about God.
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Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.
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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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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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A thought is a screen, not a mirror that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.
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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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The day you are happy for no reason whatsoever, the day you find yourself taking delight in everything and in nothing, you will know that you have found the land of unending joy called the kingdom.
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My former master taught me to accept birth and death. Then what have you come to me for? asked the master. To learn to accept what lies in between.
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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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If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.” “I know. An overwhelming passion for it.” “No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
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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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The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.
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Isn't there such a thing as social liberation? Of course there is, said the Master. How would you describe it? Liberation from the need to belong to the herd.
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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 sanctify whatever you are grateful for.
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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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