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Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.
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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Step by step, let whatever happens happen. Real change will come when it is brought about, not by your ego, but by reality. Awareness releases reality to change you.
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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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The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.
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As the Japanese Zen masters say, “Don't seek the truth just drop your opinions”. Drop your theories don't seek the truth.
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Think of a flabby person covered with layers of fat. That is what your mind can become - flabby, covered with layers of fat till it becomes too dull and lazy to think, to observe, to explore, to discover ... not wanting to be disturbed or questioned into wakefulness.
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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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You can read books without ever stepping into a library and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple.
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Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.
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Don't ask the world to change....you change first.
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Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
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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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If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.” “I know. An overwhelming passion for it.” “No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
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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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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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No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
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So love the thought of death, love it.
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When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
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