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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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People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.
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The only way to change is by changing your understanding.
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Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when you are alone?
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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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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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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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That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners, said the Master.
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You sanctify whatever you are grateful for.
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Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.
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Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance all evil comes from that.
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The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990
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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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Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.
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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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When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.
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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 words of the scholar are to be understood. The words of the master are not to be understood. They are to be listened to as one listens to the wind in the trees and the sound of the river and the song of the bird. They will awaken something within the heart that is beyond all knowledge.
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There's only one reason why you're not experiencing bliss at this present moment, and it's because you're thinking or focusing on what you don't have....But, right now you have everything you need to be in bliss.
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Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.
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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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