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The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song — not one. Not two.

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Anthony de Mello
Age: 55 †
Born: 1931
Born: September 4
Died: 1987
Died: June 2
Philosopher
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Psychologist
Theologian
Writer
Bombay
Ocean
Sun
Song
Two
Light
Singer
Singers
Wave

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Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers only plastic flowers never die.
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It's only when you become love - in other words, when you have dropped your illusions and attachments - that you will know. As you identify less and less with the me, you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything.
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This truth I firmly hold, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding my life has been a gift, a blessing to the world.
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There's nothing you can do to see — it is a gift.
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Can one be fully human without experiencing tragedy? The only tragedy there is in the world is ignorance all evil comes from that.
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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 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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You keep insisting, I feel good because the world is right! Wrong! The world is right because I feel good. That's what all the mystics are saying.
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Said the master: Where does your question come from?
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That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners, said the Master.
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The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg the saint in a selfish human being.
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If you don't look at things through your concepts, you'll never be bored. Every single thing is unique.
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I wish to become a teacher of the Truth.
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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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You're so ashamed of your past drop it! You're so proud of your past drop it!
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the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it does not cause happiness – it merely causes a flash of pleasure followed by weariness, and it is always accompanied, of course, by the anxiety that you may lose the object of your attachment.
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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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If you look carefully you will see that there is one thing and only one thing that causes unhappiness. The name of that thing is attachment. What is an attachment? An emotional state of clinging caused by the belief that without some particular thing or some person you cannot be happy.
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