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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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Psychologist
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Bombay
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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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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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Said the master: Where does your question come from?
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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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The present moment is never intolerable. What's intolerable is what's going to happen in the next four hours. To have your body here at 8 pm and your mind at 10:30 pm, that's what causes us suffering.
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If you look carefully you will see that there is one thing and only one thing that causes unhappiness. The name of that thing is attachment. What is an attachment? An emotional state of clinging caused by the belief that without some particular thing or some person you cannot be happy.
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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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There comes a point in your life when you become stark raving insane, commit suicide or become a mystic.
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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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What is the work of a Master? said a solemn-faced visitor. To teach people to laugh , said the Master gravely.
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Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.
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May the peace of God disturb you always.
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So love the thought of death, love it.
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You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.
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Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.
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There is yet another illusion, that it is important to be respectable, to be loved and appreciated, to be important. Many say we have a natural urge to be loved and appreciated, to belong. That’s false. Drop this illusion and you will find happiness. We have a natural urge to be free, a natural urge to love, but not to be loved.
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What is the secret of your serenity? Said the master: Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.
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A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.
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When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.
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