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You keep insisting, I feel good because the world is right! Wrong! The world is right because I feel good. That's what all the mystics are saying.

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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Bombay
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Understand your darkness and it will vanish then you will know what light is. Understand your nightmare for what it is and it will stop then you will wake up to reality. Understand your false beliefs and they will drop then you will know the taste of happiness.
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Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.
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Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers only plastic flowers never die.
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If you look carefully you will see that there is one thing and only one thing that causes unhappiness. The name of that thing is attachment. What is an attachment? An emotional state of clinging caused by the belief that without some particular thing or some person you cannot be happy.
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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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I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.
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You can never be free as long as you have an ego to defend.
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A disciple, in his reverence for the Master, looked upon him as God incarnate. Tell me, O Master, he said, why you have come into this world. To teach fools like you to stop wasting their time worshiping Masters.
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Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.
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A newly married couple said, What shall we do to make our love endure? Said the Master, Love other things together.
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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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We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about 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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You do not have to change for God to love you.
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What is the work of a Master? said a solemn-faced visitor. To teach people to laugh , said the Master gravely.
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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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What is the secret of your serenity? Said the master: Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.
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The only way to change is by changing your understanding.
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When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
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No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
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