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If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.
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
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The day you are happy for no reason whatsoever, the day you find yourself taking delight in everything and in nothing, you will know that you have found the land of unending joy called the kingdom.
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You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.
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Concepts are always frozen. Reality flows.
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You've got to drop something. You've got to drop illusions. You don't have to add anything in order to be happy you've got to drop something. Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings.
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When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.
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My commitment is not to consistency but to the Truth.
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One always treads with a joyful step when one has dropped the burden called the ego.
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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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People kill for money or for power. But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill for their ideas.
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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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Enlightenment is: absolute cooperation with the inevitable.
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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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What is the secret of your serenity? Said the master: Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.
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We do not have a fear of the unknown. What we fear is giving up the known.
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The master never seemed to have his fill of gazing at his firstborn child. What do you want him to be when he grows up? someone asked. Outrageously happy, said the master.
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