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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
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Bombay
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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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Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?
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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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There's nothing you can do to see — it is a gift.
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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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Suffering is given to you that you might open your eyes to the truth.
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Wisdom can be learned. But it cannot be taught.
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What is love? The total absence of fear, said the Master What is it we fear? Love, said the Master.
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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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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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Both what you run from- and what you yearn for - are within you.
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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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The feigning sleeper can delude others he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.
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When I speak, you must not listen to the words, my dear. Listen to the Silence.
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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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If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.” “I know. An overwhelming passion for it.” “No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
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Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers only plastic flowers never die.
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What is the secret of your serenity? Said the master: Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable.
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When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.
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