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We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything.
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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Psychologist
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Bombay
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You're not living until it doesn't matter a tinker's damn to you whether you live or die. At that point you live. When you're ready to lose your life, you live it.
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You keep insisting, I feel good because the world is right! Wrong! The world is right because I feel good. That's what all the mystics are saying.
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You are never in love with anyone. You're only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person.
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When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.
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Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.
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Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!
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To fight evil with activity is like fighting darkness with one's hands. So what you need is light, not fit.
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The poor think they will be happy when they become rich. The rich think they will be happy when they are rid of their ulcers.
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May the peace of God disturb you always.
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A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.
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Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.
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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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You're so ashamed of your past drop it! You're so proud of your past drop it!
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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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Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when you are alone?
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What is the secret of your serenity? Said the master: Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.
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Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
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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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The words of the scholar are to be understood. The words of the master are not to be understood. They are to be listened to as one listens to the wind in the trees and the sound of the river and the song of the bird. They will awaken something within the heart that is beyond all knowledge.
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The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg the saint in a selfish human being.
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