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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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The way to really live is to die. The passport to living is to imagine yourself in your grave. Imagine you're lying in your coffin....Now look at your problems from that viewpoint. Changes everything, doesn't it?
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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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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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This is what is ultimate in our human knowledge of God, to know that we do not know.
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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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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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A newly married couple said, What shall we do to make our love endure? Said the Master, Love other things together.
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The spiritual quest is a journey without distance. You travel from where you are right now To where you have always been. From ignorance to recognition.
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When the eye is unobstructed, the result is sight. When the ear is unobstructed, the result is hearing. When the mind is unobstructed the result is truth. When the heart is unobstructed, the result is joy and love.
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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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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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