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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
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We live in a flash of light evening comes and it is night forever. It's only a flash and we waste it. We waste it with our anxiety, our worries, our concerns, our burdens.
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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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To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.
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The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.
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Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!
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You can never be free as long as you have an ego to defend.
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Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.
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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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the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.
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You do not have to change for God to love you.
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So love the thought of death, love it.
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Isn't there such a thing as social liberation? Of course there is, said the Master. How would you describe it? Liberation from the need to belong to the herd.
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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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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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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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That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners, said the Master.
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Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.
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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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A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.
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When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.
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