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There's nothing you can do to see — it is a gift.

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Anthony de Mello
Age: 55 †
Born: 1931
Born: September 4
Died: 1987
Died: June 2
Philosopher
Priest
Psychologist
Theologian
Writer
Bombay
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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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People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg
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I leave you free to be yourself: to think your thoughts, indulge your tastes, follow your inclinations, behave in ways that you decide are to your liking.
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What is the secret of your serenity? Said the master: Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.
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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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The words of the scholar are to be understood. The words of the master are not to be understood. They are to be listened to as one listens to the wind in the trees and the sound of the river and the song of the bird. They will awaken something within the heart that is beyond all knowledge.
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When the eye is unobstructed, the result is sight. When the ear is unobstructed, the result is hearing. When the mind is unobstructed the result is truth. When the heart is unobstructed, the result is joy and love.
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We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything.
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Said the master: Where does your question come from?
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Nothing has changed but my attitude, therefore, everything has changed.
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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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As soon as you look at the world through an ideology, you are finished. No reality fits ideology.
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The world is right because I feel good. p. 83, Awareness, copyright 1990
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You will seek for God in vain till you understand that God can't be seen as a thing he needs a special way of looking - similar to that of little children whose sight is undistorted by prefabricated doctrines and beliefs.
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When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.
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Because everyone is the same distance from the sun. Does it really lessen the distance if you live on top of a skyscraper?
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When God means you to be a healer he sends you patients when he makes you a teacher he sends you pupils when he destines you to be a Master he sends you stories.
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Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.
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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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The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas.
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