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What is love? The total absence of fear, said the Master What is it we fear? Love, said the Master.

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
Theologian
Writer
Bombay
Love
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The Master made it his task to destroy systematically every doctrine, every belief, every concept of the divine, for these things, which were originally intended as pointers, were now being taken as descriptions. He loved to quote the Eastern saying When the sage points to the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.
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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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What is the secret of your serenity? Said the master: Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.
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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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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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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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I'm going to write a book someday and the title will be I'm an Ass, You're an Ass. That's the most liberating, wonderful thing in the world, when you openly admit you're an ass. It's wonderful. When people tell me, You're wrong I say, What can you expect of an ass?
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Both what you run from- and what you yearn for - are within you.
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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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May the peace of God disturb you always.
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One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.
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You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.
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Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
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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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Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.
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The three most difficult things for a human being are not physical feats or intellectual achievements. They are, first, returning love for hate second, including the excluded third, admitting that you are wrong.
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That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners, said the Master.
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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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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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Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.
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