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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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Bombay
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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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You are so proud of your intelligence, said the master. You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell.
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Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!
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When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.
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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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When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.
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The way to really live is to die. The passport to living is to imagine yourself in your grave. Imagine you're lying in your coffin....Now look at your problems from that viewpoint. Changes everything, doesn't it?
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Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers only plastic flowers never die.
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The feigning sleeper can delude others he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.
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As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don't seek the truth just drop your opinions”. Drop your theories don't seek the truth.
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One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.
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These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
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This truth I firmly hold, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding my life has been a gift, a blessing to the world.
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