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Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
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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Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts?
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Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers only plastic flowers never die.
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When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
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Isn't there such a thing as social liberation? Of course there is, said the Master. How would you describe it? Liberation from the need to belong to the herd.
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Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practice this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.
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So love the thought of death, love it.
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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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Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.
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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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What is the secret of your serenity? Said the master: Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.
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Don't ask the world to change....you change first.
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I seek the meaning of existence, said the stranger. You are of course assuming, said the Master, that existence has a meaning. Doesn't it? When you experience existence as it is - not as you think it is you will discover that your question has no meaning, said the Master.
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You sanctify whatever you are grateful for.
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The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990
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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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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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Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.
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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.
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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.
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