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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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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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Said the master: Where does your question come from?
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People who deliberate fully before they take a step will spend their lives on one leg
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There's only one reason why you're not experiencing bliss at this present moment, and it's because you're thinking or focusing on what you don't have....But, right now you have everything you need to be in bliss.
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Nothing has changed but my attitude, therefore, everything has changed.
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Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.
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You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.
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You do not have to change for God to love you.
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You sanctify whatever you are grateful for.
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Love springs from awareness.
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To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.
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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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You can read books without ever stepping into a library and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple.
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Don't ask the world to change....you change first.
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Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
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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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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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Say goodbye to golden yesterdays: or your heart will never learn to love the present.
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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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Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers only plastic flowers never die.
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