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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
Priest
Psychologist
Theologian
Writer
Bombay
Sinners
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Master
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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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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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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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Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.
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There is yet another illusion, that it is important to be respectable, to be loved and appreciated, to be important. Many say we have a natural urge to be loved and appreciated, to belong. That’s false. Drop this illusion and you will find happiness. We have a natural urge to be free, a natural urge to love, but not to be loved.
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Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.
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No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
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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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Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.
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