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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
Priest
Psychologist
Theologian
Writer
Bombay
Thinking
Present
Life
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Everything
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Mindfulness
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The Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one.
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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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the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause happiness – it merely causes a flash of pleasure followed by weariness, and it is always accompanied, of course, by the anxiety that you may lose the object of your attachment.
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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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Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
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The only way to change is by changing your understanding.
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A thought is a screen, not a mirror that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.
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Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers only plastic flowers never die.
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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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Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.
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Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.
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That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners, said the Master.
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You can read books without ever stepping into a library and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple.
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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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If you don't look at things through your concepts, you'll never be bored. Every single thing is unique.
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I leave you free to be yourself: to think your thoughts, indulge your tastes, follow your inclinations, behave in ways that you decide are to your liking.
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