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When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.

Anthony de Mello

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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
Fingers
Moon
Pointers
Sage
Finger
Points
Idiot
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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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You're not living until it doesn't matter a tinker's damn to you whether you live or die. At that point you live. When you're ready to lose your life, you live it.
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Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.
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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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You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.
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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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A good teacher offers practice, a bad one offers theories.
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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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We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything.
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Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers only plastic flowers never die.
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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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There comes a point in your life when you become stark raving insane, commit suicide or become a mystic.
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The day you are happy for no reason whatsoever, the day you find yourself taking delight in everything and in nothing, you will know that you have found the land of unending joy called the kingdom.
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There is yet another illusion, that it is important to be respectable, to be loved and appreciated, to be important. Many say we have a natural urge to be loved and appreciated, to belong. That’s false. Drop this illusion and you will find happiness. We have a natural urge to be free, a natural urge to love, but not to be loved.
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One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.
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You're so ashamed of your past drop it! You're so proud of your past drop it!
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To those who seek to protect their ego true Peace brings only disturbance.
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If the heart is unobstructed, the result is love.
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The only way to change is by changing your understanding.
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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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