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So love the thought of death, love it.
Anthony de Mello
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Anthony de Mello
Age: 55 †
Born: 1931
Born: September 4
Died: 1987
Died: June 2
Philosopher
Priest
Psychologist
Theologian
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Bombay
Love
Death
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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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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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We live in a flash of light evening comes and it is night forever. It's only a flash and we waste it. We waste it with our anxiety, our worries, our concerns, our burdens.
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There's nothing you can do to see — it is a gift.
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Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?
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What is the secret of your serenity? Said the master: Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.
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When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.
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Both what you run from- and what you yearn for - are within you.
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May the peace of God disturb you always.
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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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You can read books without ever stepping into a library and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple.
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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 don't look at things through your concepts, you'll never be bored. Every single thing is unique.
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If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.” “I know. An overwhelming passion for it.” “No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
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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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Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
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The feigning sleeper can delude others he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.
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Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!
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Love springs from awareness.
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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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