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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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Anthony de Mello
Age: 55 †
Born: 1931
Born: September 4
Died: 1987
Died: June 2
Philosopher
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Psychologist
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Bombay
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Love
Life
Relationships
Joy
Crazy
Happiness
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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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If the heart is unobstructed, the result is love.
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What is the secret of your serenity? Said the master: Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.
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Name one practical, down-to-earth effect of spirituality, said the skeptic who was ready for an argument. Here's one, said the Master. When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
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These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
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You sanctify whatever you are grateful for.
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Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!
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The disciples were absorbed in a discussion of Lao-Tzu's dictum: Those who know, do not say Those who say, do not know. When the master entered, they asked him what the words meant. Said the master, Which of you knows the fragrance of a rose? All of them indicated that they knew. Then he said, Put it into words. All of them were silent
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You will seek for God in vain till you understand that God can't be seen as a thing he needs a special way of looking - similar to that of little children whose sight is undistorted by prefabricated doctrines and beliefs.
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The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition.
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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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Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
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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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There comes a point in your life when you become stark raving insane, commit suicide or become a mystic.
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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 only way to change is by changing your understanding.
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Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.
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Love springs from awareness.
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What is a loving heart? A loving heart is sensitive to the whole of life, to all persons a loving heart doesn't harden itself to any persons or things.
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Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.
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