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There's only one reason why you're not experiencing bliss at this present moment, and it's because you're thinking or focusing on what you don't have....But, right now you have everything you need to be in bliss.
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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You are so proud of your intelligence, said the master. You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell.
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The day you are happy for no reason whatsoever, the day you find yourself taking delight in everything and in nothing, you will know that you have found the land of unending joy called the kingdom.
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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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Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers only plastic flowers never die.
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No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
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Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
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Said the master: Where does your question come from?
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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 you want to know what it means to be happy, look at a flower, a bird, a child they are perfect images of the kingdom. For they live from moment to moment in the eternal now with no past and no future.
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Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.
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Can one talk about the ocean to a frog in a well or about the divine to people who are restricted by their concepts?
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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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You do not have to change for God to love you.
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Because everyone is the same distance from the sun. Does it really lessen the distance if you live on top of a skyscraper?
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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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Don't ask the world to change....you change first.
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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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Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.
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I seek the meaning of existence, said the stranger. You are of course assuming, said the Master, that existence has a meaning. Doesn't it? When you experience existence as it is - not as you think it is you will discover that your question has no meaning, said the Master.
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