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The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg the saint in a selfish human being.
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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You are so proud of your intelligence, said the master. You are like a like a condemned man, proud of the vastness of his prison cell.
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I seek the meaning of existence, said the stranger. You are of course assuming, said the Master, that existence has a meaning. Doesn't it? When you experience existence as it is - not as you think it is you will discover that your question has no meaning, said the Master.
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A newly married couple said, What shall we do to make our love endure? Said the Master, Love other things together.
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Nothing has changed but my attitude, therefore, everything has changed.
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You are never in love with anyone. You're only in love with your prejudiced and hopeful idea of that person.
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One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.
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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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These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
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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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My former master taught me to accept birth and death. Then what have you come to me for? asked the master. To learn to accept what lies in between.
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Understand your darkness and it will vanish then you will know what light is. Understand your nightmare for what it is and it will stop then you will wake up to reality. Understand your false beliefs and they will drop then you will know the taste of happiness.
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God in heaven holds each person by a string. When you sin, you cut the string. Then God ties it up again. Making a knot, bringing you a little closer to Him. Again and again your sins cut the string and with each knot God keeps drawing you closer and closer.
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Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.
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Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practice this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.
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People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.
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Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.
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The poor think they will be happy when they become rich. The rich think they will be happy when they are rid of their ulcers.
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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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Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.
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