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What is the secret of your serenity? Said the master: Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.
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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Psychologist
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Bombay
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More quotes by Anthony de Mello
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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The three most difficult things for a human being are not physical feats or intellectual achievements. They are, first, returning love for hate second, including the excluded third, admitting that you are wrong.
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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.
Anthony de Mello
Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.
Anthony de Mello
Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
Anthony de Mello
As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.
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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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.
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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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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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What is love? The total absence of fear, said the Master What is it we fear? Love, said the Master.
Anthony de Mello
Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.
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You sanctify whatever you are grateful for.
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There comes a point in your life when you become stark raving insane, commit suicide or become a mystic.
Anthony de Mello
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
Don't ask the world to change....you change first.
Anthony de Mello
When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.
Anthony de Mello
This is what is ultimate in our human knowledge of God, to know that we do not know.
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.
Anthony de Mello
We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything.
Anthony de Mello