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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.
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 world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990
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the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause happiness – it merely causes a flash of pleasure followed by weariness, and it is always accompanied, of course, by the anxiety that you may lose the object of your attachment.
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You can never be free as long as you have an ego to defend.
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Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!
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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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I leave you free to be yourself: to think your thoughts, indulge your tastes, follow your inclinations, behave in ways that you decide are to your liking.
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Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.
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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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Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.
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A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.
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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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