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The master never seemed to have his fill of gazing at his firstborn child. What do you want him to be when he grows up? someone asked. Outrageously happy, said the master.
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 words of the scholar are to be understood. The words of the master are not to be understood. They are to be listened to as one listens to the wind in the trees and the sound of the river and the song of the bird. They will awaken something within the heart that is beyond all knowledge.
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As the Arabs say, The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens.
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One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.
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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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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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Live your life as you see fit. That's not selfish. Selfish is to demand that others live their lives as you see fit.
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Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers only plastic flowers never die.
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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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You've got to drop something. You've got to drop illusions. You don't have to add anything in order to be happy you've got to drop something. Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.
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Nothing has changed but my attitude, therefore, everything has changed.
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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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That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners, said the Master.
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Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.
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People kill for money or for power. But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill for their ideas.
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Ordinarily, everything we do is in our self-interest. Everything.
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What you are aware of you are in control of what you are not aware of is in control of you.
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Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when you are alone?
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My experience is that it's precisely the ones who don't know what to do with this life who are all hot and bothered about what they are going to do with another life.
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The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.
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If you make me your authority, you harm yourself because you will not see things for yourself, and you harm me too because you refuse to see me as I am.
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