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That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners, said the Master.
Anthony de Mello
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Anthony de Mello
Age: 55 †
Born: 1931
Born: September 4
Died: 1987
Died: June 2
Philosopher
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Bombay
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Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practice this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.
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Don't ask the world to change....you change first.
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You can never be free as long as you have an ego to defend.
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So love the thought of death, love it.
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Nothing has changed but my attitude, therefore, everything has changed.
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There comes a point in your life when you become stark raving insane, commit suicide or become a mystic.
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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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It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!
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It's only when you become love - in other words, when you have dropped your illusions and attachments - that you will know. As you identify less and less with the me, you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything.
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The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song — not one. Not two.
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No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
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Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.
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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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This truth I firmly hold, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding my life has been a gift, a blessing to the world.
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Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
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When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
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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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When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.
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A Jesuit once wrote a note to Father Arrupe, his superior general, asking him about the relative value of communism, socialism and capitalism. Father Arrupe gave him a lovely reply. He said, A system is about as good or as bad as the people who use it. People with golden hearts would make capitalism or communism or socialism work beautifully.
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Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when you are alone?
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