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The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition.
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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The poor think they will be happy when they become rich. The rich think they will be happy when they are rid of their ulcers.
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You do not have to change for God to love you.
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Don't ask the world to change....you change first.
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I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.
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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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The day you are happy for no reason whatsoever, the day you find yourself taking delight in everything and in nothing, you will know that you have found the land of unending joy called the kingdom.
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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.
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Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.
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As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.
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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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Name one practical, down-to-earth effect of spirituality, said the skeptic who was ready for an argument. Here's one, said the Master. When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
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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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When the eye is unobstructed, the result is sight. When the ear is unobstructed, the result is hearing. When the mind is unobstructed the result is truth. When the heart is unobstructed, the result is joy and love.
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If you don't look at things through your concepts, you'll never be bored. Every single thing is unique.
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When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your brakes on.
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A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.
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You're not living until it doesn't matter a tinker's damn to you whether you live or die. At that point you live. When you're ready to lose your life, you live it.
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This is what is ultimate in our human knowledge of God, to know that we do not know.
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Because everyone is the same distance from the sun. Does it really lessen the distance if you live on top of a skyscraper?
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Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.
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