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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
Philosopher
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Bombay
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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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A thought is a screen, not a mirror that is why you live in a thought envelope, untouched by Reality.
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The three most difficult things for a human being are not physical feats or intellectual achievements. They are, first, returning love for hate second, including the excluded third, admitting that you are wrong.
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Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.
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the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause happiness – it merely causes a flash of pleasure followed by weariness, and it is always accompanied, of course, by the anxiety that you may lose the object of your attachment.
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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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You can never be free as long as you have an ego to defend.
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When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your brakes on.
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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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I'm going to write a book someday and the title will be I'm an Ass, You're an Ass. That's the most liberating, wonderful thing in the world, when you openly admit you're an ass. It's wonderful. When people tell me, You're wrong I say, What can you expect of an ass?
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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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Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
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So love the thought of death, love it.
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Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.
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Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.
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Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance all evil comes from that.
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You keep insisting, I feel good because the world is right! Wrong! The world is right because I feel good. That's what all the mystics are saying.
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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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A disciple said to him, I am ready, in the quest for God , to give up anything: wealth, friends, family, country, life itself. What else can a person give up? The Master calmly replied, One's beliefs about God.
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What is my identity ? Nothing, said the Master. You mean that I am an emptiness and a void? said the incredulous disciple. Nothing that can be labeled. said the Master.
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