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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
Love
Life
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Joy
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Living
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Everything
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When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.
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Said the master: Where does your question come from?
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One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.
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The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song — not one. Not two.
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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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Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.
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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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If you don't look at things through your concepts, you'll never be bored. Every single thing is unique.
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You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.
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May the peace of God disturb you always.
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Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.
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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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My former master taught me to accept birth and death. Then what have you come to me for? asked the master. To learn to accept what lies in between.
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If you look carefully you will see that there is one thing and only one thing that causes unhappiness. The name of that thing is attachment. What is an attachment? An emotional state of clinging caused by the belief that without some particular thing or some person you cannot be happy.
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Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.
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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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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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Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?
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