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The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song — not one. Not two.
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 Rose does not preen herself to catch my eye. She blooms because she blooms. A saint is a saint until he knows he is one.
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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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When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.
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When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.
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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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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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The feigning sleeper can delude others he cannot delude himself. The false mystic, unfortunately, can delude both others and himself.
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If the heart is unobstructed, the result is love.
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Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all - they are attempting nothing new.
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Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything.
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Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.
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Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers only plastic flowers never die.
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Loneliness is not cured by human company. Loneliness is cured by contact with reality.
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Has it ever occurred to you that you can only love when you are alone?
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You do not have to change for God to love you.
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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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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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The Master made it his task to destroy systematically every doctrine, every belief, every concept of the divine, for these things, which were originally intended as pointers, were now being taken as descriptions. He loved to quote the Eastern saying When the sage points to the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger.
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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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