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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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Bombay
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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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Both what you run from- and what you yearn for - are within you.
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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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Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.
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When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your brakes on.
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A Jesuit once wrote a note to Father Arrupe, his superior general, asking him about the relative value of communism, socialism and capitalism. Father Arrupe gave him a lovely reply. He said, A system is about as good or as bad as the people who use it. People with golden hearts would make capitalism or communism or socialism work beautifully.
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A thought is a screen, not a mirror that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.
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Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.
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You have within yourself the answer to every question you propose - if you only knew how to look for it. In the Land of the spirit, you cannot walk by the light of someone else's lamp. You want to borrow mine. I'd rather teach you how to make your own.
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People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.
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When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
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Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
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Nothing has changed but my attitude, therefore, everything has changed.
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There's only one reason why you're not experiencing bliss at this present moment, and it's because you're thinking or focusing on what you don't have....But, right now you have everything you need to be in bliss.
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Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?
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Said the master: Where does your question come from?
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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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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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The feigning sleeper can delude others he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.
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When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.
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