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That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners, said the Master.

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Anthony de Mello
Age: 55 †
Born: 1931
Born: September 4
Died: 1987
Died: June 2
Philosopher
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Psychologist
Theologian
Writer
Bombay
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Master
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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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The way to really live is to die. The passport to living is to imagine yourself in your grave. Imagine you're lying in your coffin....Now look at your problems from that viewpoint. Changes everything, doesn't it?
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Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when you are alone?
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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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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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A disciple said to him, I am ready, in the quest for God , to give up anything: wealth, friends, family, country, life itself. What else can a person give up? The Master calmly replied, One's beliefs about God.
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Said the master: Where does your question come from?
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The only way to change is by changing your understanding.
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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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The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg the saint in a selfish human being.
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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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Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers only plastic flowers never die.
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The three most difficult things for a human being are not physical feats or intellectual achievements. They are, first, returning love for hate second, including the excluded third, admitting that you are wrong.
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Nothing has changed but my attitude, therefore, everything has changed.
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We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything.
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You're not living until it doesn't matter a tinker's damn to you whether you live or die. At that point you live. When you're ready to lose your life, you live it.
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Understand your darkness and it will vanish then you will know what light is. Understand your nightmare for what it is and it will stop then you will wake up to reality. Understand your false beliefs and they will drop then you will know the taste of happiness.
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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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You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.
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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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