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In many ways we were drugged when we were young. We were brought up to need people. For what? For acceptance, approval, appreciation, applause.
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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Take away human beings from this planet and life would go on, nature would go on in all its loveliness and violence. Where would the problem be? No problem. You created the problem. You are the problem. You identified with me and that is the problem. The feeling is in you, not in reality.
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So love the thought of death, love it.
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If you make me your authority, you harm yourself because you will not see things for yourself, and you harm me too because you refuse to see me as I am.
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Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!
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Don't ask the world to change....you change first.
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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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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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Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.
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Live your life as you see fit. That's not selfish. Selfish is to demand that others live their lives as you see fit.
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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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My commitment is not to consistency but to the Truth.
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