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When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.
Anthony de Mello
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Anthony de Mello
Age: 55 †
Born: 1931
Born: September 4
Died: 1987
Died: June 2
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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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As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.
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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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A disciple was one day recalling how Buddha , Jesus , Mohammed were branded as rebels and heretics by their contemporaries. Said the Master, Nobody can be said to have attained the pinnacle of Truth until a thousand sincere people have denounced him for blasphemy .
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Before enlightenment, I used to be depressed after enlightenment, I continue to be depressed.
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Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.
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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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You sanctify whatever you are grateful for.
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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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Name one practical, down-to-earth effect of spirituality, said the skeptic who was ready for an argument. Here's one, said the Master. When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
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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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There's nothing you can do to see — it is a gift.
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The only way to change is by changing your understanding.
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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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Both what you run from- and what you yearn for - are within you.
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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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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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Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.
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When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.
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Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.
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