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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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When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.
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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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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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What is love? The total absence of fear, said the Master What is it we fear? Love, said the Master.
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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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The Master made it his task to destroy systematically every doctrine, every belief, every concept of the divine, for these things, which were originally intended as pointers, were now being taken as descriptions. He loved to quote the Eastern saying When the sage points to the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.
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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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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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It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!
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Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!
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The Master was exceedingly gracious to university dons who visited him, but he would never reply to their questions or be drawn into their theological speculations. To his disciples, who marveled at this, he said, 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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Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.
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When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.
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Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers only plastic flowers never die.
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Nothing has changed but my attitude, therefore, everything has changed.
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You will seek for God in vain till you understand that God can't be seen as a thing he needs a special way of looking - similar to that of little children whose sight is undistorted by prefabricated doctrines and beliefs.
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Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.
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I'm going to write a book someday and the title will be I'm an Ass, You're an Ass. That's the most liberating, wonderful thing in the world, when you openly admit you're an ass. It's wonderful. When people tell me, You're wrong I say, What can you expect of an ass?
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You're so ashamed of your past drop it! You're so proud of your past drop it!
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